Viveash is an eastern suburb of

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, Western Australia, in the

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. It was named after Samuel Waterman Viveash, the owner of the land in this area in the 1840s. He came to the

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on ''Britomart'', which sailed from

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on 3 July 1838 and arrived at

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on 5 December 1838, and took up land in the

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. A copy of Viveash's diaries for the period 1838 to 1851 can be accessed at the University of Western Australia Library. The suburban area of Viveash was developed by

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, which carried out subdivision in 1967, and requested in 1968 that the area be named after Viveash.

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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs and localities in the City of Swan {{PerthAU-geo-stub