Queen Victoria Street | |
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| Fremantle Traffic Bridge crossing the Swan River | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Road |
| Length | 2.0 km (1.2 mi) |
| Route number(s) |  State Route 12 |
| Major junctions | |
| North end |  Stirling Highway (State Route 5), North Fremantle |
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| South end | Parry Street, Fremantle |
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Queen Victoria Street is the main road entering the city centre of Fremantle, Western Australia, from the direction of Perth. The road was originally named Cantonment Road, but was subsequently renamed Victoria Road, and a few years later Queen Victoria Street, after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, to avoid confusion with similarly named roads in the area.[1]
Due to its proximity to Fremantle Harbour it has at times had very heavy traffic.[2]
- ^ Ewers, John K. (1971). The Western Gateway: A History of Fremantle (2nd ed.). Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press for the Fremantle City Council. pp. 227–229. ISBN 085564 050 2.
- ^ "FREMANTLE'S MAIN HIGHWAY". The West Australian. Perth. 17 October 1923. p. 10. Retrieved 7 November 2012 – via National Library of Australia.