| Wannanup Mandurah, Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 The Dawesville Channel forms the southern boundary of Wannanup, which lies to the right of the channel in this image | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 32°35′53″S 115°38′38″E / 32.598°S 115.644°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 4,142 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 6210 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 4.8 km2 (1.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | City of Mandurah | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Dawesville | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Canning | ||||||||||||||
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Wannanup (also known as Port Bouvard, Avalon and Florida[2]) is a residential suburb in Western Australia, located 12 kilometres (7 mi) southwest of Mandurah and 87 kilometres (54 mi) south-southwest of the state capital, Perth. It is surrounded on three sides by water – the Indian Ocean to the west, the Harvey Estuary to the east and the Dawesville Channel to the south – and is home to the Port Bouvard development. It is one of four suburbs which lie on an island created by the building of the Dawesville Channel.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Wannanup (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ See – Murray, Ian, with Marion Hercock (2008) Where on the coast is that? Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press. ISBN 978-0-85905-452-2. page 107 for the history of the names of the locality – Florida was the unofficial name in the 1950s, it was proposed to be Caddadup, but was called Florida after 1980
