Keralup is a suburb straddling the southern boundary of the metropolitan area of
Perth
Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...
, Western Australia, on the eastern side of 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 A ...
, and consists entirely of a government strategic landholding.
The suburb's was chosen from a newspaper poll; it was proposed by local
Nyoongar
The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the South West, Western Australia, south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton, Western Aus ...
leader, Trevor Walley, as it was the name of a pool in the Serpentine River in which he and his friends played as children.
Proposed development
In 1991, the state government's Department of Housing purchased Amarillo Farm, a large landholding in Keralup.
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In 1997, plans were announced for the land to be developed into a major satellite city of Perth, with an estimated population of 90,000 people. The development was initially named Amarillo and later renamed East Keralup. The planned development was eventually abandoned in 2015 after the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia released a report detailing "disastrous ecological consequences", including the potential for mosquito-borne illnesses deriving from the suburb's position on wetlands to the north of the Peel-Harvey Estuarine System.]
References
External links
Department of Housing: KeralupCity of Rockingham: Keralup
{{Towns Peel WA
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
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