Portal:Western Australia/Nominate/Did you know
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- ...that Australian Bob Marshall won the World Amateur Billiards Championship four times and the Australian championship 21 times in a career spanning 50 years?
- ...that one egg laid in a clutch of two by the White-breasted Robin of Western Australia is much paler than the other?
- ...that the Silver Centenary biplane, built in Beverley, Western Australia in 1930, received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight?
- ...that Dumas House, a government office building in Perth, Western Australia, is named in honour of engineer and public servant Sir Russell John Dumas?
- ...that the New Norcia Cricket Team was a team of mainly indigenous cricketers who played in Western Australia between about 1879 and 1906?
- ...that the world's most extensive deposits of eolianite, rocks formed by the lithification of sediments deposited by wind, are located on the southern and western coasts of Australia?
- ...that Western Australia's Number 1 sawmill, later called Deanmill, was constructed to provide timber railway sleepers for the Trans-Australian Railway?
- ...that the Tingari cycle in Australian Aboriginal mythology embodies a vast network of Aboriginal Dreaming songlines that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia, and is frequently the subject of Aboriginal Art?
- ...that Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of the Australian continent, is named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin?
- ...that ethnographer Eric Mjöberg, leader of the first Swedish scientific expedition to Western Australia's Kimberley region, smuggled out indigenous human remains and that 90 years later, Sweden returned all 18 boxes of them?
- ...that garden plant Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream', a hybrid of G. banksii from humid subtropical Queensland and G. bipinnatifida from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia, tolerates the climates of both its parents?
- ...that the original Victoria Dam, constructed in 1891, was the first dam in Western Australia, and it stood for almost 100 years before being replaced with the current dam?
- ...that when the 1987 America's Cup was raced off Fremantle, Western Australia it was the first time for 132 years that the regatta had not been hosted by the New York Yacht Club?
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