Victoria Park, Western Australia
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Location of Victoria Park, Western Australia
The Town of Victoria Park is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of 17.62 square kilometers in metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia. The Town of Victoria Park maintains 154.55 km of roads, a little over 1 km² of parks and gardens and has a population of 28,312 as of 2003.
It lies on the eastern bank of the Swan River from the Perth CBD, connected by the Causeway Bridge, an extension of the Albany Highway which heads south to Albany. The Perth-Armadale rail line passes through Burswood and forms the southern boundaries of Lathlain and Carlisle.
Victoria Park is bounded on the north by the City of Belmont, on the east by the City of Canning and on the south by the City of South Perth.
Originally governed by a Roads Board in 1894, it was declared a Municipality in 1897 with Hugh Duncan as the first Mayor. It was taken over by the City of Perth in 1917 after becoming unsustainable as an autonomous political entity, but was split from the City of Perth in 1994 to become the Town of Victoria Park.
Victoria Park is the eastern gateway to the Perth CBD, being the intersection of the three original eastern arterial roads: Albany Highway, Canning Highway, Great Eastern Highway, and the Causeway Bridge.
The Causeway Bridge was the first major bridge engineering project in or about Perth, and involved augmenting the Heirisson mudflats into a proper island. The mudflats were at that time an important resource for the Nungar aborigines. The current bridge is the "third edition":
- Originally opened in 1843;
- Largely rebuilt after disastrous floods in 1862, reopened in 1867;
- Improved several times in 1899, 1903, 1933 and 1943;
- Completely rebuilt from 1947 and reopened in 1952.
Lathlain Park is the home of the (WAFL) Perth Football club.
Victoria Park is also a suburb within this municipality.
Suburbs
- Burswood
- Carlisle
- East Victoria Park
- Lathlain
- Victoria Park
External links
- The Town of Victoria Park Website (http://www.vicpark.wa.gov.au)