Portal:Western Australia/Nominate/Did you know

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 * last update was 31 May 2009


 * New suggestions: ...
 * ...that despite being one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall on Western Australia, Cyclone Glenda caused minimal damage and no deaths?
 * ...that the Palace Hotel in Perth, Western Australia was described at its opening as "one of the most beautiful and elegant hotels in Australasia"?
 * ...that Red Dog was such a well-known and beloved dog in Western Australia's Pilbara region that a statue was built in his honour?
 * ...that the remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by shipwreck survivor Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island in 1629, are Australia's oldest known European structures?
 * ... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
 * ...that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia's largest resource development?
 * ...that the 2008 Western Australian gas crisis may cost the state's industries hundreds of millions of dollars?
 * ...that Australian naturalist and botanical artist Rica Erickson wrote her first book Orchids of the West in 1951?

Suggestions
This section is for proposing a Western Australian Did you know entry or commenting on current proposals made on this page.
 * FYI, the entries suggested above from Black Kangaroo Paw to 1987 America's Cup were gathered from trawling through archives 168-214 of the main page DYKs for anything WA-related. Somno (talk) 03:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Kay Goldsworthy to Rica Erickson are from archives 215-222. Somno (talk) 03:42, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * enter suggestions here ...