Situated 15km from Perth GPO.
Named after Captain Charles Howe Fremantle who arrived at the Swan River Colony on May 2nd 1829, on the HMS "Challenger". Fremantle had been despatched from the Cape of Good Hope on the 20th March of that year, by Commodore Schomberg, of the Indian Squadron, and after anchoring off the mouth of the Swan River, hoisted the British flag on the South Head, and took formal possession in the name or His Majesty King George IV, of "all that part of New Holland which is not included within the territory of New South Wales. The name Fremantle has at times and in various records been incorrectly spelt as 'Freemantle'.
Situated 4km from Perth GPO.
Derived from Jolimont Terrace, a street name in a subdivision of Swan Loc 396, subdivided in October 1891 by the owner John Henry Maddock. John Henry Maddock was a Melbourne solicitor who acquired the land on July 2nd 1891. It is believed he named Jolimont Terrace after the Melbourne suburb of Jolimont which was in turn named after "Jolimont", the residence of Governor Latrobe, built 1839.
Situated 15km from Perth GPO.
The area of this suburb was first named "Buckland Downs" on a map of the Colony drawn in London in September 1832. This name is thought to have been bestowed by Governor Stirling to honour William Buckland, a noted geologist and later Dean of Westminster. When the suburb was first developed it was referred to as Buckland Hill, but in 1907 when the Public Works Department constructed a jetty on the river here, the area was named Mosman Bay after Mosman in Sydney, the birthplace of R J Yeldon, one of the Road Board members. The area name was changed to Mosman Park at a meeting of the Executive Council in 1937.
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