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Symbol Name Image Adopted Remarks State flag: Flag of Western Australia: Flag of Western Australia: 1870 The swan faced was changed in 1953 to look towards the Union Jack in accordance with heraldic principles. State badge: State badge of Western Australia State Badge of Western Australia: 27 November 1875
Symbols of Queensland: South Australia: Coat of arms of South Australia: Badge of South Australia: Sturt's desert pea: Piping shrike: Hairy nosed wombat: Leafy seadragon-Blue, red and gold Opal(State Gemstone) Bornite(State Mineral) Spriggina floundersi [4] South Australian tartan: Symbols of South Australia: Tasmania: Coat of arms of Tasmania ...
This is a list of Australian mammal emblems. Area represented Image Common name Binomial nomenclature ... Western Australia: Numbat: Myrmecobius fasciatus [9] See also
Pages in category "Symbols of Western Australia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Animal emblem Picture: Western Australia: Numbat [1] Black swan [1] Whale shark [1] South Australia: Southern hairy-nosed wombat [2] Leafy seadragon [2] Piping shrike (unofficial) [3] Victoria: Leadbeater's possum [4] Weedy seadragon [4] Helmeted honeyeater [4] Tasmania: Tasmanian devil [5] Australian Capital Territory: Gang-gang cockatoo [6 ...
The British colony in Western Australia was popularly known as the Swan River Colony from its foundation in 1829 until the beginning of the convict era in 1850. The black swan is the official bird emblem of Western Australia, although only formally adopted in 1973. It also appears on the state badge as a black swan silhouetted against a yellow ...
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The Roman satirist Juvenal wrote in AD 82 of rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno ("a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan"). [6] He meant something whose rarity would compare with that of a black swan, or in other words, as a black swan was not thought to exist, neither did the supposed characteristics of the "rare bird" with which it was being compared.