| Mount Melville Albany, Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Mount Melville from Anzac Park | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 1,007 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 6330 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 2.9 km2 (1.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Albany | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Albany | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | O'Connor | ||||||||||||||
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35°01′21″S 117°52′16″E / 35.0225°S 117.8712°E
Kardarup/Mount Melville[2] is a south-western suburb of Albany in southern Western Australia, west of Albany's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Albany.
Mount Melville is named after the natural granite massif that the suburb is nestled around. The mount forms the western flank to the Albany CBD, with Mount Clarence located to the eastern side.
The Mount was named after Viscount Melville, the first Lord of the Admiralty, in 1791 by Captain George Vancouver.
Mount Melville was gazetted as a suburb in 1979.[3]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mount Melville (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "News Story - Lookout for new Dual Naming signage » City of Albany". www.albany.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ "Naming of Localities - Town of Albany (per 3773/57 V4)". Western Australia Government Gazette. 8 June 1979. p. 1979:1501.
