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Cottesloe

Cottesloe is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, within the Town of Cottesloe.

Cottesloe
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The place

Cottesloe is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, within the Town of Cottesloe. Cottesloe was named for Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, a prominent Tory politician and the brother of Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, for whom the city of Fremantle was named. The nearby suburb of Swanbourne was named for the Fremantle family seat, Swanbourne House, in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cottesloe

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
    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 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Manners Hill Park

    Manners Hill Park is a public park in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia. It is located in Peppermint Grove, an affluent suburb of Perth, and is surrounded by Johnston Street, Bay View Terrace, Keane Street and Lilla Street.

    1.7 km · park in Peppermint Grove, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary Star of the Sea

    St Mary Star of the Sea is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia. Located in the Archdiocese of Perth, it is dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea.

    900 m · church in Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cottesloe Beach

    Cottesloe Beach, known in the Noongar language as Mudurup, is a popular beach in Cottesloe and one of the most iconic locations of Western Australia. The enduring popularity of the beach is the result of combination of factors including proximity to metropolitan Perth, accessibility by train, shelter from strong summer breezes and presence of offshore reefs making it a relatively safe swimming location.

    700 m · beach in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Columba's Presbyterian Church

    St Columba's Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church at the corner of Venn and Keane streets in Peppermint Grove, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

    1.2 km · Heritage listed building in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Claremont Oval

    Claremont Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as Revo Fitness Stadium, is an Australian rules football stadium located in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium, opened in 1905 as "Claremont Recreation Ground", seats 5,000.

    2.9 km · football stadium in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Iona Presentation College, Perth

    Iona Presentation College is an independent Catholic early learning, primary and secondary school. It is located in Mosman Park, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

    2 km · catholic primary and secondary school in Mosman Park, WA, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Methodist Ladies' College

    Methodist Ladies' College, Perth, is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for girls, in Claremont, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Founded by the Methodist Church of Australia in 1907, MLC is a non-selective school, and in 2024, it had about 1,040 girls from pre-kindergarten to Year 12, including 90 boarders.

    1.9 km · independent Uniting Church day and boarding school for girls located in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Scotch College, Perth

    Scotch College, is an independent Uniting Church primary and secondary school for boys, located in the Perth suburb of Swanbourne, Western Australia. It has both day and boarding students.

    2 km · independent Uniting Church school in Swanbourne, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cottesloe Civic Centre

    The Cottesloe Civic Centre is situated on the corner of Broome and Napier streets in Cottesloe, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is a local landmark featuring a substantial two storey building with white walls and an orange tiled roof in the Spanish Mission style.

    100 m · heritage listed building in Cottesloe, 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.

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Getting to Cottesloe

Airports
Perth (PER), 21 km
Stations
Claremont railway station, 2.7 km · Grant Street railway station, 1 km · Swanbourne railway station, 1.7 km · Showgrounds railway station, 3.4 km · Cottesloe railway station, 600 m
  • Port Hedland → Cottesloe
    1329 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · A$290–440
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cottesloe

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 Cottesloe. 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.

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    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,023 km
  2. 02
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,586 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

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  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    3,023 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,076 km

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Around it

Next door to Cottesloe

Cottesloe is 11 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.