Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Cottesloe

Cottesloe is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, within the Town of Cottesloe.

Plan a trip to Cottesloe→From Port Hedland

Every way there

Port Hedland → Cottesloe
1329 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · A$290–440
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Cottesloe, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Cottesloe has

YScheduled flightsPerth (PER), 21 km
FTrains and coaches34 feeds listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Translink Magnetic Island, TransLink Maryborough-Hervey Bay, TransLink North Stradbroke Island)
YFerriesB Shed, 7 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Perth, 11 km.

-31.993°, 115.757°

Cottesloe was named for Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, a prominent Tory politician and the brother of Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, for whom the city of Fremantle was named. The nearby suburb of Swanbourne was named for the Fremantle family seat, Swanbourne House, in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire.

How locals move

Getting around Cottesloe the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

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