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Burswood

Burswood is an inner southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located immediately across the Swan River from Perth's central business district (CBD).

Burswood
Burswood · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Burswood is an inner southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located immediately across the Swan River from Perth's central business district (CBD). Its local government area is the Town of Victoria Park. Burswood is the location of the State Tennis Centre, Perth Stadium, Belmont Park Racecourse, the Crown Perth casino and resort complex, and the future Perth Park sports and entertainment precinct and street circuit.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burswood

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
    Perth Rectangular Stadium

    Perth Rectangular Stadium is a stadium located near the Perth central business district. It is primarily used for soccer and rugby union as the home ground of Perth Glory FC in the A-League Men and the Western Force in the Super Rugby Pacific.

    3 km · stadium in Vincent, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Perth Stadium

    Perth Stadium is a stadium located in the Perth suburb of Burswood. It is primarily used for Australian rules football and cricket as the home ground of the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League and the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League.

    1.5 km · stadium in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Central Park

    Central Park is a 51-storey office tower in Perth, Western Australia. The building measures 226 m from its base at St Georges Terrace to the roof, and 261.7 m to the tip of its communications mast.

    3.8 km · skyscraper in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Edith Cowan University

    Edith Cowan University is a public research university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of Edith Cowan, the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament.

    3.8 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Art Gallery of Western Australia

    The Art Gallery of Western Australia is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries of the Government of Western Australia.

    3.5 km · art gallery in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Cathedral, Perth

    St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, officially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Australian cathedral. It is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth and seat of its archbishop, currently Timothy Costelloe.

    2.8 km · cathedral in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    State Library of Western Australia

    The State Library of Western Australia is a research, education, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is a portfolio agency of the Western Australia Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, and facilitated by the Library Board of Western Australia.

    3.6 km · state library in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Perth Mosque

    Perth Mosque, located in Perth, Western Australia is the oldest mosque in Perth and the second oldest purpose-built mosque in Australia.

    3.7 km · mosque in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Western Australian Museum

    The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969. The museum has six main sites.

    3.4 km · state museum of Western Australia (statutory authority) · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    108 St Georges Terrace

    108 St Georges Terrace, also Palace Tower and formerly the South32 Tower, Bankwest Tower, Bond Tower, and R&I Tower, is a fifty-storey office building in Perth, Western Australia. The project was initiated in 1981 and completed in 1988, and the building measures 214 metres to its roof and 247 metres to the tip of its communications antenna.

    3.7 km · 50 story skyscraper in St Georges Tce, 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 Burswood

Airports
Perth (PER), 7 km
Stations
Perth railway station, 3.5 km · East Perth railway station, 2.8 km · Elizabeth Quay railway station, 3.7 km · Perth Busport, 3.7 km
  • Port Hedland → Burswood
    1322 km · quickest by air, 5h 15m · A$250–390
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Burswood

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 Burswood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA ferry makes the short hop across the Swan River, running between Barrack St Jetty on the City bank and Mends St Jetty in South Perth.
  • Get inFerries run every 15 min weekdays and 30 min on weekends.

From Wikivoyage: Perth/City, 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

    2,012 km
  2. 02
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,583 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,626 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    3,014 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,069 km

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

Around it

Next door to Burswood

Burswood is 3 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Perthcapital city of Western Australia, Australia3.4 km
  • South Perthsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.5 km
  • Belmontsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.8 km
  • Victoria Parksuburb of Perth, Western Australia600 m
  • East Perthsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2 km
  • Maylandssuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.7 km