Cooloongup
Cooloongup is an outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham.

Cooloongup is an outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. It consists mainly of residential dwellings.
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Worth seeing in and around Cooloongup
4 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.
- 01Lake Cooloongup
Lake Cooloongup, sometimes also referred to as White Lake, is a shallow saline lake in the suburb of Cooloongup, 50 kilometres south of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is part of Rockingham Lakes Regional Park.
3.4 km · lake in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 02Day Cottage
Day Cottage, also referred to as Ellendale, is a State Register of Heritage Places-listed Victorian-style cottage in East Rockingham, Western Australia. The cottage is part of the East Rockingham Heritage Precinct.
3.4 km · heritage listed building Rockingham, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 03Rockingham War Memorial
The Rockingham War Memorial is a military memorial in the City of Rockingham, Western Australia, dedicated to what is now the Australian Defence Force.
3.2 km · War memorial in Rockingham, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 04Rockingham Shopping Centre
Rockingham Centre is a regional shopping centre located 47 kilometres south-southwest of Perth, Western Australia, in the suburb of Rockingham. Opened in 1971 and formerly known as Rockingham Park Shopping Centre, Rockingham City Shopping Centre and Rockingham Shopping Centre, it has been redeveloped and expanded several times, and currently has a lettable floor area of 62,216 square metres incorporating 184 tenants.
1.3 km · shopping centre in Western Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cooloongup
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 45 km
- Stations
- Rockingham railway station, 1.1 km · Warnbro railway station, 3.4 km
- Perth → Cooloongup39 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · A$6–8
- Port Hedland → Cooloongup1361 km · quickest by air, 6h 57m · A$330–490
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cooloongup
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 Cooloongup. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundPrivate boats are banned from landing at Penguin Island, but there is a regular ferry service departing from the jetty at Safety Bay.
From Wikivoyage: Rockingham (Western Australia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Cooloongup
Cooloongup is 40 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rockinghamsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.2 km
- HillmanSuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.6 km
- Safety Baysuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.3 km
- Waikikisuburb of Perth, Western Australia3 km