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City of Nedlands
The City of Nedlands is a local government area in the inner western suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, about 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of 20.0 square kilometres (7.7 sq mi), maintains 137 km of roads and a little over 380 hectares of parks and gardens, and has a population of over 21,000 as of 2016.
City of Nedlands History
The City of Nedlands had its origins in the Claremont Road District, which was created in 1893 after a petition from ratepayers who lived in the areas of Nedlands and Claremont, which had grown substantially in population at the end of the 19th century. Seven men were nominated to the new Board, which became the first local government authority for the Nedlands/Claremont area. In 1898, Claremont itself split away to form a municipal government, which still exists today as the Town of Claremont.
In 1932, the Claremont Road Board was renamed Nedlands, and on 1 July 1959, it became a city. The City was made up of four wards – Melvista, Hollywood, Dalkeith and Coastal. These wards continue to the present day.
"On 1 July, 1959 the City of Nedlands was proclaimed at the command of Governor Sir Charles Gairdner, in the packed Dalkeith Civic Hall. Mr Allan Jenkins read out the proclamation and the Minister for Local Government, Mr Leslie Logan, M.L.C. conducted the official swearing in ceremony of the new Mayor, John Charles Smith, the twelve new Councillors and the auditors. He then appointed Mr Allan Jenkins as the City's first Town Clerk. Among those present was MLA for Nedlands, Deputy Premier Charles Court." - From the City of Nedlands Council Website https://www.nedlands.wa.gov.au/history. City of Nedlands community Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nedlands/.
City of Nedlands Suburbs
Dalkeith, Floreat, Karrakatta, Mount Claremont, Nedlands, Shenton Park, SwanbourneAbout the Finnish Language
The Finnish language is a Finno-Ugric language, a group of languages belonging to the Uralic language family. It is one of the two official languages of Finland. It is also an official minority language in Sweden.
Finnish is one of the four national languages of Europe that is not an Indo-European language. The other three are Estonian and Hungarian, which are also Uralic languages, and Basque.
In the 19th century Johan Vilhelm Snellman and others began to stress the need to improve the status of Finnish. Ever since the days of Mikael Agricola, written Finnish had been used almost exclusively in religious contexts, but now Snellman's Hegelian nationalistic ideas of Finnish as a fully-fledged national language gained considerable support. Concerted efforts were made to improve the status of the language and to modernize it, and by the end of the century Finnish had become a language of administration, journalism, literature, and science in Finland, along with Swedish.
The most important contributions to improving the status of Finnish were made by Elias Lönnrot. His impact on the development of modern vocabulary in Finnish was particularly important. In addition to compiling the Kalevala, he acted as an arbiter in disputes about the development of standard Finnish between the proponents of western and eastern dialects, ensuring that the western dialects Agricola had preferred preserved their preeminent role, while many originally dialect words from Eastern Finland were introduced to the standard language, enriching it considerably. The first novel written in Finnish (and by a Finnish speaker) was Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), published by Aleksis Kivi in 1870.
City of Nedlands Finnish Translator Services
Finnish translator for certified translation services:
- Finnish driving license translation
- Finnish financial translation and bank statement translations
- Finnish birth certificate translation
- Finnish marriage certificate translation
- Finnish name-change certificate translation
- Finnish degree translation
- Finnish diploma translation
- Finnish school transcript translation
- Finnish passport translation
- Finnish police report translation
- Finnish police check translation
- Finnish personal letters and cards
- Finnish utility bill translations
- Finnish death certificate translation
Perth Translation provides fast and affordable Finnish translation services in the City of Nedlands for all types of personal documents by NAATI translators.
Finnish Document Translation
Finnish has considerable dialectal diversity across Western and Eastern dialect groups, but official documents uniformly use standard Finnish (yleiskieli) based on a blend of both groups. Finland is officially bilingual, and documents from certain municipalities — particularly along the western and southern coasts — may be issued in Swedish or in bilingual Finnish-Swedish format. Translators must identify the source language correctly when handling bilingual Finnish documents.
Finnish Document Types
Finnish civil documents include the syntymätodistus (birth certificate), avioliittotodistus (marriage certificate), and ajokortti (driving licence). Population records are maintained by the Digi- ja väestötietovirasto (Digital and Population Data Services Agency), which replaced the former church-based population registration system.
Where Finnish Is Official
Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish. It is also an official language of the European Union and a recognised minority language in Sweden, Norway, and Russia (Karelia). Finland's bilingual status means official documents may be issued in either Finnish or Swedish depending on the municipality's language status. The Sami languages also have official status in designated Sami homeland municipalities in northern Finland.
Finnish uses the Latin alphabet with the additional characters ä and ö, which are considered separate letters positioned at the end of the alphabet, not variants of a and o. Double vowels and double consonants are phonemically significant in Finnish — tuli (fire), tuuli (wind), and tulli (customs) are entirely different words. This precision must be maintained in all translated personal and place names.
About City of Nedlands
The City of Nedlands covers approximately 20 square kilometres on the northern bank of the Swan River, west of Perth CBD. With a population of around 23,000, it is one of Perth's most established and affluent residential areas, shaped significantly by the presence of the University of Western Australia and several major hospital campuses.
The LGA includes Nedlands, Dalkeith, Mount Claremont, Karrakatta, Shenton Park, and Floreat Park, with Hampden Road and Broadway serving as the main local commercial strips.
Council offices are on Stirling Highway in Nedlands, with the Nedlands Library located nearby. The area houses several state-level institutions including QEII Medical Centre, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and Hollywood Private Hospital.
Stirling Highway is the primary east-west corridor connecting to both Perth CBD and Fremantle. The Loch Street and Shenton Park stations are on the Fremantle line, and multiple bus routes operate along Stirling Highway and through the UWA campus.
