Mount Henry Peninsula

This article is about the peninsula in Australia. For the mountain in Glacier National Park, see Mount Henry (Montana).

Mount Henry Peninsula
Mount Henry Shoreline, Aquinas Bay.
Mount Henry Shoreline, Aquinas Bay.
Location Perth, Western Australia
Traditional land owners Noongar
First title holders Manning family
Size 0.119 km2 (29 acres)
Land title Privately owned
Current owners Aquinas College, Perth

Mount Henry Peninsula is a land feature and reserve located 11 km (6.8 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia, on the north bank of the Canning River near the Mount Henry Bridge in Salter Point, Western Australia. It covers 11.9 hectares (29 acres), and includes both Banksia attenuata and Banksia menziesii woodland, and a muddy and desert biome. The peninsula features limestone slopes, shoreline vegetation, wetlands, and contains the most inland vegetated knoll of the Spearwood dunes on the Swan-Canning estuary, as well as a significant variety of natural conditions for birds and other fauna. The Mount Henry Peninisula is a designated Bush Forever Site, number 227.[1]

The peninsula is owned by the Congregation of Christian Brothers as part of the Aquinas College property, and is managed as a reserve with the Department of Environment and the City of South Perth for heritage conservation, education and passive recreation values. Senior students at Aquinas College are involved in the Community Service Program, and many choose to participate in Environmental Service.[2]

The "Canning River Wetlands", which takes in Mount Henry Peninsula, is on the Register of the National Estate,[3] (Australia's national inventory of natural and cultural heritage places which are worth keeping for the future). The future preservation of the Mount Henry Peninsula has been guaranteed through the signing of the Bush Forever program by the Christian Brothers[citation needed] as owners of the Aquinas College property.

  1. ^ Western Australian Planning Commission (December 2000). "Estuaries, Rivers and Creeks Descriptions (Vol 2 Part B)" (PDF). Bush Forever 2000 Bush Forever Site Description. Retrieved 16 November 2006.
  2. ^ Aquinas College (July 2001). "Aquinas College Service Learning Program". Service Learning Journal Description. Retrieved 16 November 2006.
  3. ^ "Place ID 17241". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government.