Koongamia

Koongamia is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located in the City of Swan local government area. The suburb was developed as a State Housing commission suburb, and had a brief time as a location on the Perth metropolitan railway system, utilising a small…

Type: Suburb with 988 residents
Description: suburb of Perth, Western Australia
Also known as: “Koongamia, Western Australia” and “Koongamia, Western Australia, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blackboy Hill and Blackboy Hill Memorial.

Blackboy Hill

Park

Photo: JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au.

Blackboy Hill was named after the Australian native plant Xanthorrhoea preissii, which dominated the site that is now absorbed into Greenmount, Western Australia.

Blackboy Hill Memorial

Memorial

Photo: JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au.

Hugo Throssell VC Memorial

Memorial

Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Greenmount and Bellevue.

Greenmount

Suburb

Photo: JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au.

Greenmount is a locality and a geographical feature in the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia, on the edge of the Darling Scarp. It is a vital point in the transport routes from the Swan Coastal Plain into the hinterland of Western Australia.

Bellevue

Suburb

Photo: Gnangarra, CC BY 2.5 au.

Bellevue is an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the local government areas of the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring. It is at the foot of the slopes of Greenmount, a landmark on the Darling Scarp that is noted in the earliest of travel journals of the early Swan River Colony.