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Mandurah is a coastal city in Western Australia, situated approximately 72
kilometres south of the state capital, Perth. It is the state's second-largest
city, with a population just ahead of that of Bunbury.

Mandurah's central business district is located on the Mandurah Estuary,
which is an outlet for the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary. The city takes its
name from a Noongar word meaning "meeting place" or "trading place". A
town site for Mandurah was laid out in 1831, two years after the
establishment of the Swan River Colony, but attracted few residents. Until
the post-war boom of the 1950s and 1960s it was little more than a small
fishing village. In subsequent years, Mandurah's reputation for boating and
fishing attracted a large number of retirees, especially to the canal
developments in the city's south.

Mandurah has grown from isolated holiday communities along the shores of
the Peel-Harvey Estuary to a major regional city in just over a decade, in a
similar vein to the Gold Coast in Eastern Australia. In recent times, it has
formed a continuous urban area with Perth along the coast; it is only 18 km
south of Rockingham, a southern suburb of Perth.

Mandurah has also become a popular lifestyle alternative for Perth retirees
and its connection with the Perth CBD has been strengthened with the
opening of the Perth-Mandurah railway line in December 2007 and a direct
road connection to the Kwinana Freeway built by late 2010.

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