 Albany was proclaimed a city on the 1st July 1998 and now has a population of over 35,000.
A strikingly situated city, it has the distinction of being the site of the first European settlement in Western Australia. On Boxing Day 1826, Major Edmund Lockyer and a party of soldiers and convicts from Sydney came ashore in Princess Royal Harbour to establish a penal outpost.
The Swan River Colony was not founded until 1829.
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