Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

 in the suburb of Karrakatta

Karrakatta, Western Australia

Karrakatta is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Nedlands and 7 km west of the CBD. Its postcode is 6010. Karrakatta is composed of two distinct areas. The largest is Karrakatta Cemetery, which began service in 1899, with a small industrial area on the south...

 in Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

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. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in 1899, with Robert Creighton. Currently managed by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, the cemetery attracts more than one million visitors each year. Cypress

Cupressaceae

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 trees located near the main entrance are a hallmark of Karrakatta Cemetery. In 1995 Western Australia's first mausoleum

Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the...

 opened at the site.

People interred at Karrakatta Cemetery include Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Australia

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 John Curtin

John Curtin

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, Governor-General

Governor-General of Australia

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 Sir Paul Hasluck, author Joseph Furphy

Joseph Furphy

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, Premier

Premier of Western Australia

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 Sir John Forrest

John Forrest

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, Auber Octavius Neville, Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger

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, John Carroll

John Carroll (VC)

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 and Matthew Raymond Locke MG

Matthew Locke (soldier)

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.

See also

• Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery
• East Perth Cemeteries
  East Perth Cemeteries
  East Perth Cemeteries is a now disused complex of seven independently administered cemeteries in East Perth, Western Australia. It is estimated that as many as 10,000 people were buried there between 1830 and 1919; however, only around 800 gravesites have been identified...