Freshwater Bay (Western Australia)

This article is about the bay in Perth. For other uses, see Freshwater Bay (disambiguation).

Freshwater Bay is a bay of the Swan River, in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. It is about 5 km (3.1 mi) upstream from the mouth of the river at Fremantle and is overlooked by the suburbs of Dalkeith, Claremont, Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove. Freshwater Bay was named after Freshwater Bay and Freshwater, Isle of Wight by Henry Charles Prinsep (1844–1922), who had a riverside family holiday cottage there, The Chine.[1]

Freshwater Bay west side from Claremont foreshore
  1. ^ Allbrook, Malcolm (2014). "'Received into the very best society'". Henry Prinsep’s Empire: Framing a distant colony. Canberra ACT: ANU Press. ISBN 9781925021608. Retrieved 18 April 2016.