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West Lakes Shore

West Lakes Shore is a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

West Lakes Shore
West Lakes Shore · Wikimedia Commons
The place

West Lakes Shore is a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It lies within the City of Charles Sturt council area. Developed in the 1970s as a public private partnership, it's noted for its manmade tidal lake.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Lakes Shore

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
    Football Park

    Football Park is an Australian rules football oval and former large-scale stadium located in the Adelaide suburb of West Lakes. It opened in 1974 to provide a playing and administrative home for the South Australian National Football League, the leading football organisation in South Australia.

    1.8 km · stadium in Adelaide, South Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    MV Nelcebee

    MV Nelcebee is an auxiliary schooner that served the South Australian coastal trade from 1883 to 1982.

    3.5 km · Australian shooner and museum ship · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Port Adelaide Lighthouse

    Port Adelaide Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the North Parade of Port Adelaide. It was first lit in 1869 at the entrance to the Port River near Outer Harbor.

    3.4 km · lighthouse in South Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Westfield West Lakes

    Westfield West Lakes is a shopping centre located in West Lakes, Adelaide, South Australia. It contains approximately 260 stores, with anchor tenants David Jones, Harris Scarfe, Kmart, Coles, Target, Woolworths and JB Hi-Fi.

    1.6 km · shopping mall in West Lakes, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Port Adelaide Workers Memorial

    The Port Adelaide Workers Memorial is a public memorial sculpture located in Port Adelaide, South Australia which recognises people who have made a significant contribution to promoting workers' rights in the Port Adelaide community. The memorial bears the names of many prominent figures in the South Australian trade union movement and Labor Party, as well as workers who served in the Great War of 1914 -1918.

    3.3 km · memorial statue by John Tillett · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hart's Mill

    Hart's Mill is a former flour mill complex located on a bend in the Port River, in the north-western corner of Port Adelaide, South Australia. The building, which is state heritage-listed, has been refurbished and is used as a cultural hub.

    3 km · building in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Semaphore Library

    The Semaphore Library is a public library in Semaphore, South Australia. It was formerly the Semaphore Institute, Semaphore Town Hall, Ozone Theatre, and Semaphore Cinema, and is heritage-listed on both the state and national registers.

    3.3 km · public library in Semaphore, South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tauondi College

    Tauondi Aboriginal College, founded as the College of Aboriginal Education and also known as Tauondi Aboriginal Community College, is a non-profit independent Australian Aboriginal college in Port Adelaide, South Australia.

    3.1 km · College in Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge

    The Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge, commonly referred to as the 'Diver' Derrick Bridge, is an opening single-leaf bascule road bridge over the Port River, Port Adelaide, in South Australia. It opened on 1 August 2008.

    3.9 km · bridge in Lefevre Peninsula · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Birkenhead Bridge

    The Birkenhead Bridge is a bascule bridge in Adelaide, Australia that crosses the Port River. In February 1938, the Government of South Australia awarded a contract to Adelaide Construction to build a bridge across the Port River from Birkenhead to Port Adelaide, with Perry Engineering contracted to supply the steelwork.

    3.3 km · bridge in Lefevre Peninsula · 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.

Go there

Getting to West Lakes Shore

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 10 km
Stations
National Railway Museum, 3.4 km · South Australian Maritime Museum, 3.5 km · South Australian Aviation Museum, 3.4 km · Albert Park railway station, 4 km · Alberton railway station, 3.4 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → West Lakes Shore
    671 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · A$240–350
  • Melbourne → West Lakes Shore
    666 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · A$220–330
  • Sydney (Mascot) → West Lakes Shore
    1168 km · quickest by air, 5h · A$230–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Lakes Shore

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 West Lakes Shore. 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

    149 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,205 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,769 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,723 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,625 km

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

Around it

Next door to West Lakes Shore

West Lakes Shore is 13 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Port Adelaidesuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3 km
  • Albertonsuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3.1 km
  • Cheltenhamsuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3.9 km
  • Grangesuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3.6 km
  • Semaphoresuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3.2 km
  • Glanvillesuburb of Adelaide, South Australia2.7 km