Mounts Bay Road is a major road in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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, Western Australia

Western Australia

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, extending southwest from the central business district

Central business district

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 along the north bank of the Swan River

Swan River (Western Australia)

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, at the base of Kings Park

Kings Park, Western Australia

Kings Park is a park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia central business district. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland. With panoramic views of the Swan...

. It runs between William Street

William Street, Perth

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 and Winthrop Avenue in Crawley

Crawley, Western Australia

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, continuing towards Fremantle

Fremantle, Western Australia

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 as Stirling Highway

Stirling Highway

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 and linking Perth with the University of Western Australia

University of Western Australia

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 and the riverside suburbs of Nedlands

Nedlands, Western Australia

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 and Claremont

Claremont, Western Australia

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.

Mounts Bay Road is also home to the Old Swan Brewery, as well as a number of expensive high rise apartments and hotels overlooking the river.

Mounts Bay Road is named after Mounts Bay, the body of water in the Swan River Estuary that was infilled for the construction of the Narrows Interchange, and the road follows the boundary of the bay at the Narrows. It follows the Swan River estuary and forms the southern and southeastern boundary for Kings Park.

Further reading

• Bateson, Fred W. (1943) Mounts Bay Road (1885 to 1893) Typescript held in Battye Library
• The West Australian
  The West Australian
  The West Australian is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by ASX-listed Seven West Media . The West is published in tabloid format, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times, a News Limited publication...
  
  (1896) The influx of population. Report of tent city located along Mounts Bay Road. 4 February 1896, p.6,