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  • bull⚡
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    1 year ago

    lol Perth Water. I want to meet the public servant who named that!

    • NathA
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      1 year ago

      That was probably John Septimus Roe nearly 200 years ago. He’s kind of a big deal in Perth history. Major highway named after him, High school etc.

      He is Perth’s equivalent of John Batman, but revered more like John Monash. It’s all Johns for days.