Safety Bay, Western Australia
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Safety Bay is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. The Australian postcode is 6169.
The suburb is located on the coast, approximately 35Km south of the Perth, Western Australia GPO.
Safety Bay derives its name from a small bay of that name. The original "bay" was a small cove on the north shore of Warnbro Sound now encompassed by Safety Bay Road, Berry Street and Janet Road. It was noted by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in 1837 as "a safe well protected boat anchorage" and he gave it the appropriate name of Safety Bay. A headland near the present junction of Safety Bay Road and June Road was named "Point Shelter". Later the cove was renamed "Peel Harbour" and when it ultimately became land locked, "Peel Basin", but the name Safety Bay stuck and gradually came to be applied to all the northern portion of Warnbro Sound. "Peel Basin" was reclaimed in later years and houses now stand where Roe once recorded soundings of up to 7 fathoms.
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Baldivis | Cooloongup | East Rockingham | Golden Bay | Hillman | Karnup | Peron | Port Kennedy | Rockingham | Safety Bay | Secret Harbour | Shoalwater | Singleton | Waikiki | Warnbro |
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