Gnangara, Western Australia

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Gnangara Perth, Western Australia
Postcode:	6065
Area:	12 km²
LGA:	City of Wanneroo
State District:	Wanneroo
Federal Division:	Cowan
Suburbs around Gnangara Wanneroo Jandabup Melaleuca Wanneroo Gnangara Lexia Wangara Landsdale Cullacabardee

Gnangara is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo. Its postcode is 6065. Gnangara is also the name for an underground water mound with a surface feature called Lake Gnangara.

Contents 1 Facilities 2 Location 3 Education 4 References

[edit] Facilities

Much of the suburb's area is vacant land, with a significant Aboriginal community located on the western side of Lake Gnangara. A rural residential estate developed in the early 1990s by Midland Brick and centred on Lakelands Drive borders the Lakelands Country Club, a private 18-hole golf course established in 1984 on 70 hectares of native bushland and wetland.^[1]

[edit] Location

Gnangara is bounded by Ocean Reef Road and Gnangara Road to the south, Badgerup Road and Ross Road to the west and the Gnangara Pine Plantation to the northeast and east. While the plantation is named for the suburb, only a few hectares of it are within the suburb's boundaries, with the majority in Lexia to the east.^[2]

Gnangara's population was not measured at the ABS 2001 census.

[edit] Education

Gnangara contains the Aboriginal Community College (K-12), founded in 1979 with a current enrolment of 72 students. It is one of two independent Indigenous schools in the metropolitan area.^[3]

[edit] References