Hamersley, Western Australia
Hamersley is a residential suburb 14 kilometres north-northwest of the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It was built during the late 1960s and 1970s as part of the Government of Western Australia’s response to rapidly increasing land prices. It is divided into western and eastern portions by Erindale Road. The restricted-access bushland reserve surrounding the 180-metre high ABC radio tower in the suburb’s southeast covers 14. 4% of its area.
About Hamersley, Western Australia in brief
Hamersley is a residential suburb 14 kilometres north-northwest of the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It was built during the late 1960s and 1970s as part of the Government of Western Australia’s response to rapidly increasing land prices across the metropolitan area. Hamersley covers 3. 267 square kilometres and averages 29 metres above sea level. It is divided into western and eastern portions by Erindale Road. The restricted-access bushland reserve surrounding the 180-metre high ABC radio tower in the suburb’s southeast covers 14. 4% of its area, while parks and areas of natural bushland are spread throughout. The soil is an infertile yellow-brown sand composed of fine to coarse quartz grains, with Tamala Limestone beneath. The sand is almost certainly the leached remnants of coastal sand deposited by eolian processes in the late Pleistocene period, between 11,000 and 100,000 years ago. Below the sand are Paleozoic rocks of the Perth Basin, which contains unconfined groundwater supplies of low-salinity potable water. A biodiversity site north of the community centre is recognised by the City of Stirling’s Green Plan 2. Streets in western Hamersleys are generally named after English towns, while eastern Hamersly uses the names of Scottish Highland and Perthshire towns and lochs. There are exceptions – the origins of Vickers Street precinct street names are unknown, while streets in the south-western corner are named after the “Bentley Boys”, a group of British racing drivers from the 1920s and 1930s, and their car designer Walter Owen Bentley.
The largest of these is a 4. 83 hectares reserve containing large areas of native bushland interspersed with grassed and paved walkways. Its borders are the Mitchell Freeway to the west, Reid Highway and the Balcatta industrial area to the south, Wanneroo Road to the east, and Beach Road and the city of Joondalup to the north. The suburb is one of the first Perth suburbs to be guided by the principles of cul-de-sac design, and many of its minor streets are joined by parks and pathways. It has been home to the district’s first community hall, an annual parade and fair which were broadcast on Perth TV and radio, an active progress association, and its own newspaper, the Hamer’s Gazette, a forerunner to today’s Stirling Times. The ABC tower was built in 1939 and is a landmark in the region, although it has been a local political issue since the 1980s. It’s located 6 kilometres from the Indian Ocean, and has been used as a polling place for local elections since the 1990s. The main species of shrub in the area would have been Eucalyptus jubica, Jubacia sterna, Jubia sterna and Agonis fraseriana. It would have supported open forests of the Swan Coastal Plain.
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