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Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Cockburn Central

Cockburn Central is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Perth's central business district (CBD) along the Kwinana Freeway.

Cockburn Central
Cockburn Central · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Cockburn Central is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, and is 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Perth's central business district (CBD) along the Kwinana Freeway. Its local government area is the City of Cockburn, and it is intended by the Government to serve as a regional centre for the area. It was approved as a name by the Geographic Names Committee in 2007.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cockburn Central

3 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
    Thomsons Lake

    Thomsons Lake Nature Reserve is a lake nature reserve around Thomsons Lake in the City of Cockburn, Western Australia, approximately 25 kilometres south of the central business district of Perth, the state capital, and on the southern fringes of the Perth metropolitan area. It is in the suburb of Beeliar, 7 kilometres south-west of Jandakot Airport.

    3.7 km · lake within Thomsons Lake Nature Reserve in the south of Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Yangebup Lake

    Yangebup Lake is a freshwater lake in the suburb of Yangebup, 18 kilometres south-west of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is part of Beeliar Regional Park.

    1.7 km · lake in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Adventure World

    Adventure World is a theme park in Bibra Lake, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The park opened on 11 November 1982 as Adventureworld at Bibra Lakes, and is open annually from spring through autumn, for seven months, undergoing a winter closure each year.

    4 km · amusement park in 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.

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Getting to Cockburn Central

Airports
Perth (PER), 23 km
Stations
Cockburn Central Station, 1.1 km · Aubin Grove railway station, 3.9 km
  • Port Hedland → Cockburn Central
    1341 km · quickest by air, 6h 1m · A$300–450
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cockburn Central

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 Cockburn Central. 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

    2,011 km
  2. 02
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,601 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,643 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    3,008 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,087 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cockburn Central

Cockburn Central is 19 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Beeliarsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.3 km
  • Bibra Lakesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.7 km
  • South Lakesuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.7 km
  • Successsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.5 km
  • Yangebupsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.9 km
  • Jandakotsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.1 km