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Marmion

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City of Joondalup WA, PO Box 21, Marmion, WA 6020
08 9400 4000

Description

Marmion is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia.

Marmion is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of Joondalup.

History

Marmion was named after Patrick Marmion, master whaler, who operated a whaling station in the area in 1849. There are still some remains of the old whaling station in the adjacent suburb, Sorrento. A monument to Marmion can be found in Geneff Park in Padbury Circle, Sorrento.

Prior to white settlement, the Whadjuk Aboriginal people, who called the area Mooro, gathered abalone and other shellfish in large numbers off the nearby reefs.

The area was popular with fishermen in the 1930s, and numerous boatsheds and shacks were built there, as well as a whaling station. A townsite was gazetted in the area in 1940, but it remained largely undeveloped until the late 1950s, when the postal district of Marmion was approved. At first, the only development in the area was the primary school, opened in 1956 as a two-teacher school and nicknamed "The Little School in the Bush", accessible only by a track until the mid-1970s. By 1961, the area west of Cliff Street was largely developed, and the Marmion Angling and Aquatic Club had been established. The rest of the suburb was developed between 1973 and 1976.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 1001-10000

Time zone: UTC +08:00

Area: 1.146 km2

Elevation: 11-50 metres

Town elevation: 13 m

Population number: 2,284

Local Government Area: City of Joondalup

Location

City of Joondalup WA, PO Box 21, Marmion, WA 6020

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Marmion, Western Australia

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