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Mount Richon

Mount Richon is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the City of Armadale.

Mount Richon
Mount Richon · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mount Richon is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the City of Armadale. Formerly part of Armadale and Wungong, Mount Richon was approved as a suburb in 2003. It occupies the western slope of the Darling Range from the intersection of Albany and South Western Highways south to Leys Rise, is bounded on the west by South-Western Highway and is bounded on the east by Albany Highway and Bungendore Park. Mount Richon is named after a vineyard that formerly existed in the area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mount Richon

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
    Armadale Reptile Centre

    The Armadale Reptile Centre is a reptile zoo in Armadale, Western Australia that focuses on herpetology and wildlife endemic to Australia. Opened to the public in 1995, the Armadale Reptile Centre houses a large variety of mostly native reptiles and other wildlife with over 50 different reptile species on display, including a large female saltwater crocodile and various species of lizards, snakes and turtles, as well as other animals such as tree frogs, cockatoos, dingoes, emus, marsupials, owls and wedge-tailed eagles.

    1.8 km · zoo in Western Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Birrega Main Drain

    The Birrega Main Drain is a drainage canal in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Construction of the canal commenced in the 1920s.

    3.6 km · drainage canal in Western Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Old Jarrah Tree

    The Old Jarrah tree is an exceptionally large and old Eucalyptus marginata tree near inside the carpark the entrance at the corner Third Road and Church Avenue in Armadale, Western Australia. It is estimated to be between 400 and 800 years old.

    800 m · heritage listed large eucalyptus tree in Armadale, Western Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mount Richon

Airports
Perth (PER), 25 km
Stations
Armadale railway station, 1.1 km · Challis railway station, 3.9 km · Sherwood railway station, 2.7 km
  • Port Hedland → Mount Richon
    1343 km · quickest by air, 6h 11m · A$310–460
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mount Richon

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,994 km
  2. 02
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,606 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,648 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,992 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,087 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mount Richon

Mount Richon is 28 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Armadalesuburb of Perth, Western Australia1 km
  • Brookdalesuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.8 km
  • Bedfordalesuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.8 km
  • Mount Nasurasuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.6 km
  • Wungongsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.5 km
  • Hilbertsuburb of Perth, Western Australia4 km