Black swan emblems and popular culture cluster in Australia: Upper Swan, Middle Swan, Swan Valley, Swan View, West Swan, Swan Estuary, Swan District, and the City (formerly Shire) of Swan. The Swan Land District is the major cadastral unit of the state, underlying much of the name cluster. There are at least twenty "Swan" street names in the Perth metropolitan area. There are no "White Swan" toponyms in the state, and the toponymist Reed lists only the Swan River as a "Swan" toponym in the state. The rarer form of "Cygnet" ("young swan") only occurs in three places, all along the Kimberley coast, where they commemorate
Michael Swan (writer) Michael Swan (writer) Michael Swan is a writer of English language teaching and reference materials. He graduated from University of Oxford with a bachelor´s degree in modern foreign languages and has later gone for a postgraduate research degree. He is the founder of Swan School of English. Major publications include "Practical English Usage" and "Basic English Usage" (Oxford University Press). Other books are "Grammar", an introductory book on why languages need grammar and what they do with it and, with David Baker, "Grammar Scan" (Oxford University Press), a collection of diagnostic language tests. Michael Swan is also the co-author, with