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The district Shoalwater of in Rockingham (Western Australia) with it's 2,963 habitants Shoalwater is a district located in Australia about 1,921 mi west of Canberra, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 19°C / 67 °F
Morning Temperature | 17°C / 62 °F |
Evening Temperature | 17°C / 62 °F |
Night Temperature | 15°C / 59 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 58% |
Air Pressure | 1015 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 13 km/h (8 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 78% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Wednesday, 6th of November 2024
17°C (63 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Thursday, 7th of November 2024
17°C (63 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Few clouds, moderate breeze.
Friday, 8th of November 2024
18°C (64 °F)
16°C (60 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Anchorage Guest House
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Ocean Clipper Inn
Leisure Inn
Quest Rockingham
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Rockingham, Western Australia
Rockingham is a city and primary centre in Western Australia south-west of the Perth city centre and south of Fremantle. It has a beachside location at Mangles Bay, the southern extremity of Cockburn Sound. To its north stretches the maritime and resource-industry installations of Kwinana and Henderson. Offshore to the north-west is Australia's largest naval fleet and submarine base, Garden Island, connected to the mainland by an all-weather causeway.
City of Kwinana
The City of Kwinana is a local government area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 118 square kilometres in metropolitan Perth, and lies about 38 km south of Perth's central business district, via the Kwinana Freeway. Kwinana maintains 287 km of roads and has a population of 30,433 (2011).
Rockingham bus station
Rockingham Bus Station was a Transperth bus station located next to Rockingham City Shopping Centre, 47 km south of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. The station provided bus transfers between inter-city and suburban routes. Its role has been replaced by bus facilities at the Rockingham railway station and the former bus station was demolished in 2008.
Hillman, Western Australia
Hillman is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. It is principally a suburb of residential dwellings, and is the location of Hillman Primary School. The suburb was created and named in 1970 after Alfred Hillman a Draftsman, Surveyor and Explorer, who arrived in Western Australia in 1831 and made many initial surveys in the Rockingham area.
Warnbro, Western Australia
Warnbro is a southern outer suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located on Warnbro Sound within the City of Rockingham. It is a residential area adjoining Port Kennedy which combines residential with retail and light-industrial land use. The Centro Warnbro Fair shopping centre includes Woolworths and Coles supermarkets together with a wide range of specialty retailers and fast-food outlets.
Kwinana Beach, Western Australia
Kwinana Beach is an industrial suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Town of Kwinana. Kwinana is originally a local indigenous Australian word meaning either "young woman" or "pretty maiden". The ship SS Kwinana was wrecked on Cockburn Sound in 1922, and blown on to the beach.
East Rockingham, Western Australia
East Rockingham is an industrial suburb within the Kwinana Industrial Area, part of Perth and located within the City of Rockingham. It is home to two caravan parks. The suburb developed as a rural community in the 1850s when various pioneers took up land and settled in the area along Mandurah Road; however, the community declined following the opening of the port at Rockingham in 1872. The Rockingham Road Board's offices were located in East Rockingham between 1905 and 1929.
Cooloongup, Western Australia
Cooloongup is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. It is principally a suburb of residential dwellings.
Peron, Western Australia
Peron is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is located within the City of Rockingham. The suburb was gazetted in 1974. It is named for its location at Cape Peron although that land feature and the immediate locality are often called "Point Peron", both locally and in written references, and this has influenced the naming of roads and features in the locality.
Safety Bay, Western Australia
Safety Bay is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located on the coast within the City of Rockingham.
Port Kennedy, Western Australia
Port Kennedy is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. Port Kennedy is built on Becher Point and because of its geomorphological history it is home to an unusual wetland formation, called the Becher Wetland Suite. These wetlands are linear in form rather than circular and have formed in dune swales parallel to the coast.
Shoalwater, Western Australia
Shoalwater is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. Shoalwater is located within the Shoalwater Islands Marine Park which includes Shoalwater Bay, Warnbro Sound, Cape Peron and several small islands being Penguin island, Seal Island and Shag Rock. The name 'Shoalwater' was used by the original settlers on the basis of the shallow waters in the area.
Waikiki, Western Australia
Waikiki is an outer southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. It adjoins and is closely associated with Safety Bay in the City of Rockingham. A prime landmark is the Waikiki Village shopping centre on Read Street, the main road linking Rockingham with Warnbro and Port Kennedy.
Mangles Bay
Mangles Bay is a bay of Cockburn Sound in Western Australia which opens out to the Indian Ocean. The town of Rockingham is on its coast, and the causeway to Garden Island runs along its southern edge. It may have been named for Admiral Sir Henry Mangles Denham. The bay's seabed consists of the Mangles Bay shallows, which is covered in seagrass meadows; and the Mangles Bay deep basin, a much deeper area slightly to the north. Mangles Bay is a popular recreation area.
Rockingham railway station, Perth
Rockingham Station is a bus and railway interchange located in the Rockingham suburb of Cooloongup, Western Australia. Situated near the intersection of Rae Road and Ennis Avenue in Cooloongup, 2 kilometres east of Rockingham Shopping Centre, it is served by the interurban Mandurah line, with services to both the Perth CBD and the neighbouring city of Mandurah. The station was designed by Jones Coulter Young architects.
Warnbro railway station
Warnbro Station is a Transperth railway and bus interchange located in the far southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Served by the Mandurah line, with services running to both Mandurah and Perth, it is the southernmost station in Perth's metropolitan area.
City of Rockingham
The City of Rockingham is a local government area in the far southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth.
Read Street
Read Street is a main road and suburban distributor in Rockingham south of Perth, and runs through or alongside the suburbs of Rockingham, Cooloongup, Safety Bay and Waikiki, linking them to the Rockingham Shopping Centre. It ends in a roundabout at Safety Bay Road and becomes Warnbro Sound Avenue at that point. It is a dual carriageway for all of its length.
Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
Shoalwater Islands Marine Park is located in Western Australia and stretches from the northern point of the Garden Island Causeway to the southern point of Becher Point, an area of 6540 ha. It is located offshore from the suburban locality of Shoalwater. Several small limestone islands are located within the boundaries of the park, including Penguin Island and Seal Island.
Kolbe Catholic College, Rockingham
Kolbe Catholic College is a Roman Catholic secondary college situated in Rockingham, Western Australia, within the Archdiocese of Perth. The college was founded in 1989 by Brother Pat Carey, of the Christian Brothers, in Rockingham. The school has a current enrolment of more than 1000 students from Years 7 to 12. The College’s motto, "Courage, Faith, Excellence", is inspired by their patron, St Maximilian Kolbe.
Rockingham Shopping Centre
Rockingham Shopping Centre is a regional shopping centre located 47 kilometres south-southwest of Perth, Western Australia, in the suburb of Rockingham. First opened in 1971 and formerly known as "Rockingham City Shopping Centre" and "Rockingham Park Shopping Centre", it has expanded several times, and now has a floor area of 62,384 square metres and 215 tenants.
Warnbro Community High School
Warnbro Community High School is a comprehensive public senior high school located in Warnbro, 50 kilometres south of Perth, Western Australia. The school was established in 1995 in a cluster of demountable buildings at Rockingham Senior High School while the first stage of construction worth $13.5 million was commenced. This stage was completed in 1996 and included general classrooms, science laboratories, library, sports hall and technology and enterprise facilities.
Safety Bay Senior High School
Safety Bay Senior High School is a public co-educational high school in Western Australia. The school is located on Malibu Road in the suburb of Safety Bay on the coast approximately 60km south of Perth. The school was established in 1978 and caters for students from Year 8 to Year 12. The school consists of a Middle School for Year 8 and 9 students and a Senior School for Year 10,11 and 12 students.
Rockingham Senior High School
Rockingham Senior High School is a public co-educational high school in Western Australia. The school is located on Read Street in the suburb of Rockingham. The school was established in 1971 and caters for students in Year 8 to 12. The number of student enrollments has declined over the last five years. The school enrolled 955 students in 2207, then 944 in 2008, to 967 in 2009, then fell to 806 in 2010 and to 807 in 2011.
Kwinana Oil Refinery
The Kwinana Refinery, operated by BP, is located on the shore of Cockburn Sound at Kwinana, near Fremantle, Western Australia. It was constructed by the then Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and completed in 1955. It is the largest oil refinery in Australia, with a capacity of 138,000 barrels/day.