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A newly discovered diary includes the first ever verified French sighting of Australia in March 1687. The handwritten diary recounts the voyage of the L'oiseau under captain Abraham Duquesne-Guitton as part

The city of Perth in Western Australia was named by Captain James Stirling in 1829 after Perth, Scotland, in honor of the birthplace and parliamentary seat in the British House of Commons of Sir George Murray,

Perth is the capital and largest city in Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,7m. The metropolitan area is loc