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
Alfred Swan Alfred Swan Alfred Julius Swan was a Russian composer and musicologist active in the early to mid-twentieth century. He specialized in Russian liturgical music. His writings include "Russian Music" and an English translation of Nikolai Medtner's "The Muse and the Fashion." His memoirs were published in 1965: "Recollections of Young Years". His nephew was the British composer and musical entertainer Donald Swann. Alfred, called Alia by his family, was born in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century. He was the eldest son of Alfred Robert Swann, a Russian clerk of English descent, and Sophie Lorentzen, daughter of veterinary surgeon