Perth
About Perth
Perth is the capital city of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth as of 2023. The world's most isolated major city by certain criteria, Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of Perth's metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which its central business district and port of Fremantle are situated.
On the show — 33 mentions total
For 250 years, it's been a mystery as to where they come from, and a scientist in Perth as part of the university here has discovered German cockroaches aren't actually from Germany.
from No Such Thing As Fishing In The Sea Of Tranquility, 2024-11-28 at 00:11:04 · read transcript
Other times Perth came up
Although there were so many good suggestions, actually, for the name of Canberra. I think my favourites are things like Buncom and Bung Town are there and gone broke. There was one suggestion was Climax. Could have been called Climax. The one that comes up a lot is the name Sid Melad Per Briseho, which is obviously a hyphenated combination of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart. They thought they'd combine them all. That's such an interesting idea. Very diplomatic.
No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 · listen
Western Australia, I wrote down that it's got 2.6 million people, over 2.5 million square kilometers. It is very... Most of those people are all crammed into... Is Perth, Western Australia? Yeah. Yeah. Basically everyone there is in Perth. Yeah. There's a town called Kimberley, which has a population of third the size of Wembley Stadium when full, but is three times the size of England. Whoa. I've stayed in Kimberly. Have you?
No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen
I'd be so pissed off after five miles if I got handed by a trick question. Beautiful. That's great. The roads in Australia are pretty much. The longest road in the world is the one that goes around Australia, Highway 1. It's 9,000 miles long. If instead of putting it all the way around Australia, they decided to go from Perth outwards, they could have got all the way to London. Stop it. Whoa. Why didn't they? They should try that. Fools.
604: No Such Thing As Crown Jewels For The Cookie Monster, 2025-10-09 · listen
Although there were so many good suggestions actually for the name of Cumbra. I think my favourites are things like Bunkham and Bungtown are there and gone broke. One suggestion was Climax. It could have been called Climax. The one that comes up a lot is the name Sid-Mellad-Per-Brizjo, which is obviously a hyphenated combination of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart. They thought they'd combined them all. That's such an interesting idea. Very diplomatic.
126: No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 · listen
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No Such Thing As Fishing In The Sea Of Tranquility put 2 places on the map.
- University of Bournemouth · United Kingdom
Coordinates: -31.9558, 115.8597