FREMANTLE, a seaport of Swan county, Western Aus tralia, at the mouth of the Swan river, 12 m. by rail S.W. of Perth. It is the terminus of the State and Australian Trans-Continental railways, and is a town of some industrial activity, shipbuilding, soap-boiling, saw-milling, smelting, iron-founding, furniture-mak ing, flour-milling, brewing and tanning being its chief industries. The harbour, by the construction of two long moles and the blast ing away of the rocks at the bar, has been rendered secure. Mail steamers call at the port. Fremantle became a municipality in 1871, and its population in 1933 was