The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western...
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Charles Fremantle (section Swan River Colony)
of Western Australia as a British colony, then as a state of federal Australia. Fremantle left the Swan River Colony on 28 August 1829, heading for the...
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History of Western Australia (redirect from Colony of Western Australia)
129th meridian east. This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, which ultimately became the present-day capital, Perth. The...
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Swan River may refer to: Australia Swan River (Western Australia) Swan River Colony, a British settlement on the river, later became Perth Canada Swan...
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Perth (section Swan River Colony)
Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. The city is situated on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar...
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between the Swan River and Cape Naturaliste In June 1838 he explored from the Swan River to Bunbury via the Murray, Harvey, Collie and Preston rivers, then...
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the right side, the state badge of Western Australia, comprising a black swan in a yellow disc, is surmounted by the St. Edward's crown. If the standard...
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Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony", also known by its standard botanical abbreviation Sketch Veg. Swan R., is an 1839 article by John Lindley...
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The Swan River Colony, established in June 1829, was the only British colony in Australia established on the basis of land grants to settlers. Under the...
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capital city of Western Australia. It was established by Britain as the Swan River Colony in 1829. The area had been explored by Europeans as early as 1697...
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1829 the Swan River Colony was established on the Swan River by Captain James Stirling. By 1832, the British settler population of the colony had reached...
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and persistence persuaded the British Government to establish the Swan River Colony and he became the first Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Western...
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James Henty (section Swan River Colony)
and put them into the first rank of society. In 1829, news that the Swan River Colony was to be established in the western part of Australia enticed the...
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the continent of Australia were the penal colony of New South Wales, founded in 1788, and the Swan River Colony (later renamed Western Australia), founded...
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A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...
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Amity (brig) (section Swan River Colony)
totalling 15 people. She was the eighth shipping arrival in the fledgling Swan River Colony. By 1844 the vessel was involved in the transport of cattle from Port...
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territories of Australia and, arguably, New Zealand. The Swan River Colony (later called the Colony of Western Australia) was never administered as part of...
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building firm from his father Richard in 1831 and migrated to the Swan River Colony, with his wife Jessey and three children in 1843. Sherwood, who had...
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Margaret River wine region. The company traces its origins back to 1840, when John Septimus Roe, the first Surveyor-General of the Swan River Colony, was...
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Edward Hugh Barron (section Swan River Colony)
Barron (8 Aug 1796 – 23 Feb 1863), was a soldier and pioneer in the Swan River Colony. Barron was born in County Donegal, Ireland. On 8 July 1817, at age...
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1803 and Queensland in 1824. Western Australia – established as the Swan River Colony in 1829 – initially was intended solely for free settlers, but commenced...
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Molloy of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. According to John Ryan, Lindley's 1840 ‘Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony’ provided...
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Mandurah was laid out in 1831, two years after the establishment of the Swan River Colony, but attracted few residents, and until the post-war boom of the 1950s...
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the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony as an appendix to Edwards's Botanical Register. The specific epithet...
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the Swan River Colony in western mainland Australia. 1832 – Swan River Colony is renamed the "colony of Western Australia". 1836 – The Colony of South...
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Diary of George Fletcher Moore (redirect from Extracts from the Letters and Journals of George Fletcher Moore, Now Filling a Judicial Office at the Swan River Settlement)
to life in Swan River colony between 1830 and 1840." Moore was an Irish lawyer who settled in the Swan River Colony in 1830, the colony's second year...
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List of governors of British South African colonies (redirect from Governor of the Orange River Colony)
British colonies namely: Cape Colony (preceded by Dutch Cape Colony), Natal Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony. After the colonies were disestablished...
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New South Wales for over four years until it was made part of the Swan River Colony. The settlement was founded on 26 December 1826 as a military outpost...
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living under the Swan River. The area was explored in 1827 by Captain James Stirling later to become governor of the Swan River Colony. Stirling was so...
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Mark John Currie (section The Swan River Settlement)
significant role in the exploration of Australia and the foundation of the Swan River Colony, later named Western Australia. He explored areas in New South Wales...
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