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Booragoon

Booragoon is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Melville.

Booragoon
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The place

Booragoon is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Melville.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Booragoon

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Murdoch University

    Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with additional campuses in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975.

    3.1 km · university in Western Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wireless Hill Park

    Wireless Hill Park is a 40-hectare park in Ardross, Western Australia that is the location of the former Applecross Wireless Station, an early radio station in Western Australia. The station buildings have been preserved and now house the Wireless Hill Museum.

    1.3 km · Heritage listed park in Ardross, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Booragoon Lake

    Booragoon Lake is a small freshwater lake in suburban Perth, Western Australia. The freshwater lake is situated in the suburb of Booragoon and is bounded by Leach Highway, Lang Street and Aldridge Road.

    1 km · lake in Booragoon, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Raffles Hotel

    Raffles Hotel is located at the corner of Canning Highway and Canning Beach Road in the Perth, Western Australia suburb of Applecross, Western Australia. It is a two-storey hotel designed in the Inter-War Functionalist style and is one of the few examples of a hotel in this style surviving in the Perth metropolitan area.

    3.6 km · heritage listed hotel and pub in Applecross, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mount Henry Bridge

    The Mount Henry Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges which carry the Kwinana Freeway and Mandurah line across the Canning River in Perth, Western Australia. At 660 metres long, the Mount Henry Bridge is the longest bridge in Western Australia.

    2.4 km · bridge in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Aquinas College Chapel

    The Aquinas College Chapel, formally known as the Chapel of St Thomas Aquinas, is a heritage-listed building located on the Aquinas College property in Salter Point, in the city of Perth, Western Australia. The building is owned by the Christian Brothers as part of the Aquinas College property.

    3.3 km · heritage listed church building in Perth, Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Aviation Heritage Museum

    The Aviation Heritage Museum is a museum located in Bull Creek, Perth, Western Australia. Created and maintained by the Air Force Association of Western Australia, it houses many military and civilian aircraft, aircraft replicas and aircraft engines, of types that have served in the Royal Australian Air Force or that have relevance to aviation in Western Australia.

    2.6 km · aviation museum in Bull Creek, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Canning Bridge

    Canning Bridge is a traffic bridge which is the most downstream crossing of the Canning River in the city of Perth, Western Australia. The bridge is a part of Canning Highway, and it connects the suburbs of Como and Applecross.

    3.7 km · bridge connecting Applecross and Como, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Corpus Christi College

    Corpus Christi College is a private, co-educational, Catholic College located in Bateman, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Established in 1983, the College has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,755 students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

    2.1 km · secondary college in Perth, Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Edmund Rice Administration Wing

    The Edmund Rice Administration Wing, commonly known as The Castle, is a heritage listed building located on Mount Henry Road in Salter Point and the focal point of the Aquinas College Campus. Built in 1937, the Castle was the first building completed on the campus.

    3.3 km · heritage listed building in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Booragoon

Airports
Perth (PER), 17 km
Stations
Canning Bridge railway station, 3.9 km · Murdoch Station, 3.4 km · Booragoon bus station, 500 m · Bull Creek railway station, 2.1 km
  • Port Hedland → Booragoon
    1332 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · A$280–420
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Booragoon

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Booragoon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextRottnest Island is a short ferry ride from Fremantle, and a great place to go for a day or a week.

From Wikivoyage: Perth/Fremantle, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,015 km
  2. 02
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,592 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,634 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    3,014 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,079 km

If you know how people move in Booragoon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Booragoon

Booragoon is 10 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Applecrosssuburb in Perth, Western Australia2.9 km
  • Kardinyasuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.4 km
  • Alfred Covesuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.7 km
  • Attadalesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.3 km
  • Winthropsuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.5 km
  • Ardrosssuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.4 km