South Perth

Worth seeing in and around South Perth

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
   Curtin University

   Curtin University is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, and is Western Australia's largest university, with 58,607 students in 2022.

   3.9 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Central Park

   Central Park is a 51-storey office tower in Perth, Western Australia. The building measures 226 m from its base at St Georges Terrace to the roof, and 261.7 m to the tip of its communications mast.

   3.2 km · skyscraper in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   3.6 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Perth Arena

   Perth Arena is an entertainment and sporting arena in the city centre of Perth, Western Australia, used mostly for basketball games. It is located on Wellington Street near the site of the former Perth Entertainment Centre, and was officially opened on 10 November 2012.

   3.9 km · stadium in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Kings Park

   Kings Park is a 400.6-hectare park overlooking Perth Water and the Perth central business district, Western Australia. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two-thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland.

   3.7 km · park and botanical gardens in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Perth Zoo

   Perth Zoo is a 17-hectare zoological park in South Perth, Western Australia. The zoo first opened in 1898, and by 2011 housed 1258 animals of 164 species and an extensive botanical collection.

   1.2 km · zoo in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Art Gallery of Western Australia

   The Art Gallery of Western Australia is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries of the Government of Western Australia.

   3.5 km · art gallery in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Mary's Cathedral, Perth

   St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, officially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Australian cathedral. It is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth and seat of its archbishop, currently Timothy Costelloe.

   3 km · cathedral in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   State Library of Western Australia

   The State Library of Western Australia is a research, education, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is a portfolio agency of the Western Australia Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, and facilitated by the Library Board of Western Australia.

   3.7 km · state library in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Western Australian Museum

    The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969. The museum has six main sites.

    3.6 km · state museum of Western Australia (statutory authority) · Wikipedia

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Getting to South Perth

Airports

Perth (PER), 11 km

Stations

Perth railway station, 3.4 km · Canning Bridge railway station, 3.1 km

• Port Hedland → South Perth

  1326 km · quickest by air, 5h 27m · A$260–400
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