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Encyclopedia Britannica



FREMANTLE

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 96 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FREMANTLE , a seaport of
Swan
  county, Western Australia, at the mouth of the
Swan
  river, 12 M. by rail S.W. of
Perth
 . It is the terminus of the Eastern railway, and is a town of some industrial activity, shipbuilding, soap-boiling, saw-milling, smelting; iron-
founding
 , furniture-making, flour-milling, brewing and tanning being its
chief
 
industries
 . The harbour, by the construction of two long moles and the
blasting
  away of the rocks at the bar, has been rendered secure. The English, French and German mail steamers
call
  at the port. Fremantle became a municipality in 1871; but there are now three
separate
  municipalitiesFremantle, with a population in 1901 of 14,704; Fremantle
East
  (2494); and Fremantle North (3246). At Rottnest Island, off the harbour, there are government salt-works and a residence of the
governor
 , also penal and reformatory establishments.


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