Mandurah

Mandurah stands beside the outlet of the Peel Inlet, on land long inhabited by the Bindjareb people. The area was known as Mandjoogoordap, a meeting place of the heart, and its estuary offered food to the people who gathered around its waters. Thomas Peel arrived in Western Australia in December 1829, too late to claim the grant originally promised to him. After a troubled attempt to settle at Clarence, he brought his remaining settlers to Mandurah, establishing a small colonial foothold in an existing Aboriginal homeland.