South Lake 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 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 ...

. South Lake is located approximately south of the Perth CBD.

History

Established in the early 1980s the suburb's name was proposed by

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Homes Builders and the

in March 1982 after a previous suggestion (''Oxley'') had been rejected because of duplication. It is situated to the south of North Lake, hence the name. The suburb name was approved in August 1982.

Geography

It is bounded by the freight rail line to the north, the

Kwinana Freeway The Kwinana Freeway is a freeway in and beyond the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with Mandurah to the south. It is the central section of State Route 2, which continues north as Mitchell Freeway to Cl ...

to the east, Berrigan Drive, Semple Court and North Lake Road to the south and North Lake Road to the west.

Facilities

Education

The suburb contains two schools: South Lake Primary School and

Lakeland Senior High School Lakeland Senior High School (abbreviated as LSHS) is an independent public co-educational high day school, located in the suburb of South Lake, Western Australia. History The school was established in 1990 and caters to students from Year 7 ...

. Lakeland Senior High School is an independent public school, offering specialised programs in music technology and touch football.

Recreation

The South Lake Leisure Centre, which contained indoor pools, gymnasium and hardball courts, adjacent to the Lakeland High School was closed and replaced by the Cockburn ARC in May 2017. The former buildings were transferred to the Department of Education. A field hockey facility was then constructed in the area to the west of the former Leisure Centre, which is the current home of the Fremantle Hockey Club.

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{{City of Cockburn suburbs Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Cockburn