Dawesville, Mandurah — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Dawesville?

The Cut is the landmark here. Dawesville has no monuments of its own, and the one built feature that carries a name is the Dawesville Cut, a man-made canal finished in 1994 that runs along the northern boundary of the suburb. The Peel-Harvey Estuarine System supplies the rest of the scenery.

For built attractions the rest of Mandurah has to serve, with the Australian Sailing Museum and Castle Fun Park both a drive away toward the centre. Water first, buildings second.

What is the history of Dawesville?

The suburb's history turns on one date. Dawesville lies on the margin of the Peel-Harvey Estuarine System south of Perth, and the shape of the place changed when the Dawesville Cut, a man-made canal, was finished in 1994 along its northern boundary. The Cut is the youngest thing here.

Everything else about the suburb belongs to the wider growth of Mandurah, the city that Dawesville is part of and that carries the older record for the whole Peel region. No date of establishment survives for the suburb itself, only for the canal along its northern edge.

Where is Dawesville?

The estuary sets the edge. Dawesville spreads over some eighteen square kilometres beside the Peel-Harvey Estuarine System, with the Dawesville Cut on its northern edge.