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Murdoch

Murdoch is a Scottish and Irish surname and given name.

Murdoch
Murdoch · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Murdoch is a Scottish and Irish surname and given name. An Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal names Muireadhach 'mariner', Murchadh 'sea-warrior', and Muircheartach 'sea-ruler', the first element in each being muir 'sea'.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Murdoch

7 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
    Murdoch University

    Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with additional campuses in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975.

    300 m · university in Western Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Booragoon Lake

    Booragoon Lake is a small freshwater lake in suburban Perth, Western Australia. The freshwater lake is situated in the suburb of Booragoon and is bounded by Leach Highway, Lang Street and Aldridge Road.

    2.9 km · lake in Booragoon, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    North Lake

    North Lake is a freshwater lake in the suburb of North Lake, 18 kilometres south of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and 8 kilometres from the Indian Ocean. The suburb and lake are located within the City of Cockburn local government area.

    1.5 km · lake in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.4 km · amusement park in Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Aviation Heritage Museum

    The Aviation Heritage Museum is a museum located in Bull Creek, Perth, Western Australia. Created and maintained by the Air Force Association of Western Australia, it houses many military and civilian aircraft, aircraft replicas and aircraft engines, of types that have served in the Royal Australian Air Force or that have relevance to aviation in Western Australia.

    3.1 km · aviation museum in Bull Creek, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Corpus Christi College

    Corpus Christi College is a private, co-educational, Catholic College located in Bateman, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Established in 1983, the College has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,755 students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

    1.6 km · secondary college in Perth, Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Westfield Booragoon

    Westfield Booragoon is a major regional shopping centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is located at the corner of Marmion and Riseley streets in the southern suburb of Booragoon.

    4 km · major regional shopping centre in Booragoon, 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 Murdoch

Airports
Perth (PER), 19 km
Stations
Booragoon bus station, 3.8 km · Bull Creek railway station, 3 km · Murdoch Station, 1.3 km
  • Port Hedland → Murdoch
    1336 km · quickest by air, 5h 50m · A$290–430
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Murdoch

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 Murdoch. 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

    2,014 km
  2. 02
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,595 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,638 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    3,012 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,082 km

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Around it

Next door to Murdoch

Murdoch is 13 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Booragoonsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.4 km
  • Kardinyasuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.2 km
  • Bibra Lakesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.7 km
  • Samsonsuburb of Fremantle, Western Australia3.8 km
  • Winthropsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.1 km
  • Myareesuburb in Perth, Western Australia3.9 km