| Rockingham Lakes Regional Park | |
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 Lake Cooloongup seen from Mandurah Road | |
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| Type | Regional park |
| Location | City of Rockingham |
| Coordinates | 32°17′44″S 115°47′26″E / 32.29556°S 115.79056°E |
| Area | 4,270 ha (10,600 acres) |
| Established | 1997 |
| Administered by | Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions |
| Website | parks |
Rockingham Lakes Regional Park is a conservation park approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. The park, established in 1997, covers a non-continuous area of 4,270 hectares (10,600 acres) and occupies approximately 16 percent of the area of the City of Rockingham.
In Western Australia, regional parks consist of areas of land that have been identified as having outstanding conservation, landscape and recreation values. The park contains remnants of the once widespread Swan Coastal Plain and two threatened ecological communities, Thrombolites and Sedgelands. It provides evidence of the sea level changes over the past 7,000 years.
Rockingham Lakes is one of eleven regional parks in the Perth region of Western Australia. The purpose of these regional parks is to serve as urban havens to preserve and restore cultural heritage and valuable ecosystems as well as to encourage sustainable nature-based recreation activities.[1]
- ^ "National, marine and regional parks in Western Australia" (PDF). Department of Parks and Wildlife. June 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2021.