The Unbelievable Rise of Australia's Most Isolated City: Perth, Western Australia

The history of Perth, Australia's most isolated major city on the Swan River, is a story of near failure and incredible fortune. Founded in 1829 as a free colony without convicts, it struggled on poor sandy soils until it reversed course and imported nearly 10,000 convicts from 1850 to build its roads and buildings. Saved by gold at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in the 1890s and transformed again by Pilbara iron ore, the city of over two million now faces how to build a future beyond mining. #perth_western_australia #perth_history #history_of_perth #australia_most_isolated_city #where_history_began