Lake Coogee is a suburb of
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
, Western Australia, located within the
City of Cockburn
The City of Cockburn ( ) is a local government area in the southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth about south of Fremantle and about south of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of and had a po ...
, and named after
Lake Coogee
Lake Coogee is a saline lake in the suburb of Lake Coogee, south-west of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is part of Beeliar Regional Park.
The lake has given its name to a number of suburbs in th ...
, located within the suburb.
History
In 2019, the City of Cockburn approved a split of the suburb of
Munster
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, whereby the north-western part of the suburb became the new suburb of Lake Coogee, while another part, in the south-west, was added to the suburb of
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. Only the eastern part of Munster remained part of the existing suburb. The changes came into effect on 30 March 2020.
Prior to being part of the suburb of Munster from 1954, the district had been known as ''South Coogee'' since the 1870s and this earlier name remains in use by older settlers of the area. The district is one of the earliest parts of Western Australia to be settled by Europeans and the remains of the cottages built by the
Pensioner Guards
The Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, and were given employment and grants of land on arrival. Their initial employment lasted for ...
in the 1880s can still be seen around the Lake Coogee reserve.
Geography
The suburb is bounded by Troode and Barrington Streets to the north,
Stock Road and Rockingam Road to the east, Frobisher Avenue to the south and the
Beeliar Regional Park
Beeliar Regional Park is a conservation park approximately south of the central business district in Perth, Western Australia, located within the Citys of Cockburn, Kwinana and Melville. The regional park is named after the indigenous Beel ...
Lake Coogee reserve to the west. after which the suburb takes its name.
Facilities
There is one school in the area, Saint Jeromes School, a Catholic primary school.
The main recreational area in the suburb is Santich Park, which was named after Arthur Santich for his volunteer work within the Council (whose descendants still live in the area), is the home of the Yangebup
Little Athletics
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Club and the South Coogee Junior Football Club.
City of Cockburn Club Sports Register
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References
External links
City of Cockburn suburbs maps
{{City of Cockburn suburbs
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
Suburbs in the City of Cockburn