Victory Heights is a residential suburb of

Kalgoorlie-Boulder Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area include ...

, a city in the

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region of

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. At the 2016 census it had a population of 893 people, down from 908 at the 2011 census.

Geography

Victory Heights is bounded by Millen Street and Johnston Street to the north, Gatacre Drive to the west, Burt Street to the south, and Ivanhoe Street to the east. The two residential areas of the suburb (a larger western area and a smaller eastern area) are divided by Gribble Creek, an

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waterway with bushland on both sides.

History

Victory Heights was established by the Boulder Municipal Council after World War II to fill a housing shortage. The development was constructed on land bought from the federal government, which had previously been used to house servicemen working at RAAF Base Kalgoorlie. Victory Heights was officially opened in March 1947 by

John Teahan John Denis Teahan (28 August 1900 – 21 October 1968) was an Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1954 to 1965, representing North-East Province. Teahan was born in B ...

, the Mayor of Boulder, with the subdivision's name having been chosen by local schoolchildren the previous year."Victory Heights"
''The Sunday Times'', 2 June 1946.

References

{{Suburbs of Kalgoorlie