Photographs of Perth

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Perth is closer to Singapore and Jakarta than it is to Canberra. It is a compact city on the banks of the Swan River and is very easy to get around on buses and trains.
Perth started out as a colony established by free pioneers, with 100 men, women and children being the first European settlers to arrive in 1829. Aboriginals however, had been in the area for thousands of years: there is an Aboriginal site in the Upper Swan area thought to be 40,000 years old.
The Swan Bell Tower was built for the Millenium to contain 18 bells. These include; 12 bells from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, 5 bells specially cast for the Australia bicentenary and 1 commissioned to mark the second millennium.