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  1. Chief port of Western Australia, at the mouth
  2. of the Swan river, SW of Perth; population
  3. (1981) 23,780. It has shipbuilding yards,
  4. sawmills, and iron foundries and exports
  5. wheat, fruit, wool, and timber. It was
  6. founded as a penal settlement 1829.
  7.