Beeliar, Western Australia
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Beeliar is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
, located within the City of Cockburn. The name refers to the Beeliar
people, a tribe of Indigenous Australians
who had land usage rights over the southern half of Perth's metropolitan area. The suburb contains the Thomsons Lake Nature Reserve
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Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, located within the City of Cockburn. The name refers to the Beeliar
Beeliar (tribe)
The Beeliar were a group of Indigenous Australians belonging to the Noongar people of the South West region of Western Australia. Robert Lyon referred to the Beeliar people as one of the five groups of the Perth metropolitan area, but it is now thought that they may have been a family subgroup of...
people, a tribe of Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....
who had land usage rights over the southern half of Perth's metropolitan area. The suburb contains the Thomsons Lake Nature Reserve
Thomsons Lake
Thomsons Lake is a lake nature reserve in the City of Cockburn, Western Australia, approximately 25 km south of the central business district of Perth, the state capital, and on the southern fringes of the Perth metropolitan area. It in the suburb of Beeliar, 7 km south-west of Jandakot Airport...
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