Floreat
Floreat is a residential suburb 8 kilometres (5 mi) west-northwest of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia.
Floreat is a residential suburb 8 kilometres (5 mi) west-northwest of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is bordered on Underwood Avenue, Selby Street, Cromarty Road and Durston Road. It is the head of the Town of Cambridge, which has its municipal offices and library in the suburb. The name of the suburb stems from the Latin word for "flourish" or "prosper", which is also the motto of the City of Perth, of which Floreat was a part when it was first built.
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Worth seeing in and around Floreat
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.
- 01Edith 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.
1.4 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 02Karrakatta Cemetery
Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Karrakatta in Perth, Western Australia. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in 1899, the first being that of wheelwright Robert Creighton.
3.6 km · cemetery in Perth, Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Galup
Galup, formerly Lake Monger is a large urban wetland on the Swan Coastal Plain in suburban Wembley, Western Australia, close to the suburbs of Glendalough, Mount Hawthorn, Leederville and West Leederville. Located less than 5 kilometres from the Perth central business district and situated alongside the Mitchell Freeway, it runs approximately north-west to south-east towards the Swan River and consists of 70 hectares of mainly open shallow water, with an island, Monger Island, of 1.3 hectares in the south-west corner.
3.2 km · lake in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 04Herdsman Lake
Herdsman Lake is a freshwater lake located on the Swan Coastal Plain in the Perth suburb of Herdsman in Western Australia. It is situated 6 kilometres north-west of the Perth central business district.
2.3 km · lake in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 05Mueller Park
Mueller Park or Müller Park, formerly known as Kitchener Park, is a park in Subiaco, Western Australia, situated next to Bob Hawke College between Perth Modern School and Subiaco Oval. It originally comprised the land area which included Subiaco Oval and in the early 1900s housed tennis, croquet, bowls, cricket and football clubs.
3.9 km · park in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 06Jackadder Lake
Jackadder Lake is a freshwater lake in Perth, Western Australia. It is located in the northern suburb of Woodlands.
3.4 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia - 07Bold Park
Bold Park is a 437-hectare urban bushland area around Reabold Hill in the suburb of City Beach, in Perth, Western Australia. It is located 8 kilometres directly west of the Perth central business district, its western border less than one kilometre from the Indian Ocean.
2.3 km · botanic garden in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 08Jualbup Lake
Lake Jualbup, formerly the Shenton Park Lake, is a freshwater lake located in Perth, Western Australia.
2.9 km · lake in Perth. Western Australia · Wikipedia - 09St Joseph's Church
St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Subiaco, Western Australia. The church opened on 12 August 1934.
3 km · church building in Subiaco, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 10Litis Stadium
E & D Litis Stadium originally known as the Lake Monger Velodrome or Velodrome, is a stadium in Leederville, Western Australia.
3.9 km · stadium in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Floreat
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 16 km
- Stations
- Glendalough railway station, 3.8 km · West Leederville railway station, 3.7 km · Daglish railway station, 2.4 km · Karrakatta railway station, 3.4 km · Loch Street railway station, 3.8 km
- Port Hedland → Floreat1322 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · A$280–420
- 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 Floreat
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 Floreat. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA paper ticket purchasable from ticket machines at train stations and ferry jetties, and from bus drivers.
- Get aroundA ferry service operates between Elizabeth Quay in the city and Mends Street Jetty in South Perth.
- Get aroundElizabeth Quay train station is adjacent to the ferry terminal.
- Get aroundLocal Bicycle Routes (a series of on-road routes and some suburban off-road sections that run through parks).
- Go nextIt's a favourite place for day trips and overnight getaways from Perth, and once the home of Bushranger Moondyne Joe.
From Wikivoyage: Perth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Floreat
Floreat is 7 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Leedervillesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.8 km
- Subiacosuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.2 km
- Wembleysuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.9 km
- West Leedervillesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.6 km
- Wembley Downssuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.6 km
- Shenton Parksuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.6 km