Pinjar is a rural locality in

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. Its

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is the

City of Wanneroo The City of Wanneroo is a local government area with city status in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It is centred approximately north of Perth's central business district and forms part of the northern boundary of the Perth ...

History

The suburb of Pinjar is named after the large swampy lake of this name located north east of

Wanneroo Wanneroo is a northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo. Geography As it is on the Swan Coastal Plain, the Wanneroo wetlands stretch parallel to the coastline and to the north and south of the suburb. Ed ...

. The lake name is shown on government plans from 1868, and the name is of

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origin. The meaning of Pinjar is unknown, but could be "tadpole" or "swampy lake".

Geography

Pinjar is bounded by

Pinjar Road Pinjar Road is a major distributor road in the north-eastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo. The road was formerly part of the now-decommissioned State Route 86, and one of Perth's major arterial ...

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to the west and Neaves Road to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are not gazetted.2007 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth, with info from Battye Library.

Facilities

Pinjar is a sparsely populated agricultural suburb, most of which is pine plantation and wetland. At the

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, Pinjar had a population of 78 people living in 39 dwellings. It was not measured in 2011. Pinjar Road is also everywhere.

Motorsport

Pinjar is home to the

Wanneroo Raceway Wanneroo Raceway, currently known as CARCO.com.au Raceway for naming rights reasons, is a motorsport circuit located in Neerabup, approximately north of Perth in Western Australia. It was built by the WA Sporting Car Club. The circuit was ...

, a 2.411 km (1.498 mi) road racing circuit. The raceway which opened in 1969, is the home of motor racing in Western Australia and hosts an annual round of the

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. Pinjar is also home to the

Pinjar Park Speedway Perth () is the capital city of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The world's most isolated major city by certain criteria, Perth is part of the ...

, which opened in 2005. Pinjar Park is a

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, and regularly hosts national and international meetings and caters to both senior and junior solo and

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racing. Pinjar Park is considered small for a

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in Australia, with most tracks around the country ranging from to in length. For the bikes, the speedway replaced the old

Claremont Speedway The Claremont Speedway was a racing circuit in the grounds of the Claremont Showground in the suburb of Claremont in Western Australia's capital city of Perth. The speedway held its first meeting on 14 May 1927, and its final meeting on 31 M ...

, which had run from 1927 until 2000, and the Bibra Lake Speedway which closed in 2004.

References

{{City of Wanneroo suburbs Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs of the City of Wanneroo