Portal:Western Australia/Nominate/Did you know

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...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?

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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)
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