Kuljak Island, also known as ''Black Swan Island'', is an artificial island in the
Swan River.
Situated between
Ron Courtney Island
Ron Courtney Island is a small uninhabited manmade river island in the Swan River, located in the suburb of Ascot in Perth, Western Australia. It was named in honour of the first chairman of the Swan River Conservation Board, which was form ...
upstream and
Heirisson Island
Heirisson Island is an island in the Swan River in Western Australia at the eastern end of Perth Water, between the suburbs of East Perth and Victoria Park. It occupies an area of , and is connected to the two foreshores by The Causeway. The ne ...
downstream, Kuljak Island is east of Maylands Peninsula and south of
Garratt Road Bridge
Garratt Road Bridge consists of two adjacent bridges over the Swan River, linking the suburbs of Bayswater and Ascot in Perth, Western Australia. The upstream bridge was built in 1935, while the matching downstream bridge was built in 1972.
Th ...
.
Kuljak Island is surrounded by a number of smaller, also artificial, islets, and is entirely within the boundaries of the suburb of
Ascot.
History
The island was created in 1997 by dredging two channels as a part of the Ascot Waters development.
These channels connect an artificial wetland with the Swan River, isolating the site of a former sanitary
landfill
A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste ...
, thus forming Kuljak Island.
This sanitary landfill was a council rubbish tip for 25 years before being closed in the early 1980s.
Kuljak Island presents “an important backdrop to
Tranby House” on the western shore of the Swan River facing Kuljak Island, by offering a view of an “apparently undeveloped” river “against the well maintained house and gardens” of Tranby House.
It captures how “the river would have been at the time” Tranby House was built.
Activities
Kuljak Island may be accessed by car via Tidewater Way, and by a pedestrian bridge via Samphire Street. A walking trail mapped by the City of Belmont comprises paved footpaths on, and leading to, Kuljak Island.
See also
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Islands of Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia hosts a variety of unique and biologically diverse habitats found nowhere else on Earth. Many of these habitats include islands. Islands provide habitat and safe refuge for endangered native fauna as they are free of in ...
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Further reading
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Swan River (Western Australia)
Islands of the Perth region (Western Australia)