Gnangara is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

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, located within the City of Wanneroo. Gnangara is also the name for an underground water mound

Gnangara Mound

The Gnangara Mound is an area north of Perth, Western Australia where a large mound of sandy soil reaches an elevation of about 60 metres. It stores about 20 cubic kilometres of fresh water, about one hundred times Perth's current annual water usage. It is currently the single most important source...

 with a 117-hectare surface feature called Lake Gnangara.

Facilities

Much of the suburb's area is semi rural, with residential estate developed in the early 1990s by Midland Brick and centred on Lakelands Drive borders includes the private 18-hole golf course Lakelands Country Club, established in 1984 on 70 hectare

Hectare

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s. A tracking station for Telesat, a communications satellite

Communications satellite

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 operator, is located in Gnangara.

Location

Gnangara is bounded by Ocean Reef Road and Gnangara Road to the south, Badgerup Road and Ross Road to the west and the Gnangara Pine Plantation to the northeast and east. While the plantation is named for the suburb, only a few hectares of it are within the suburb's boundaries, with the majority in Lexia

Lexia, Western Australia

Lexia is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located in the City of Swan local government area....

 to the east.

At the 2006 census, Gnangara had a population of 1,193.

Education

Gnangara contained the Aboriginal Community College (K-12), founded in 1979 and closed in 2008. It was one of two independent Indigenous

Indigenous Australians

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schools in the metropolitan area.