Cantonment Hill, Fremantle

Cantonment Hill

Dwerda Weelardinup, Walyarup
Cantonment Hill Dwerda Weelardinup, Walyarup
Limestone
	Cantonment Hill signal station
	Coordinates: 32°2′37″S 115°45′19″E
Location	Fremantle, Western Australia
Operator	City of Fremantle
Area
• Total	2.31 hectares (5.7 acres)
Elevation	33.9 m (111.2 ft) 32°2′37.05″S 115°45′18.89″E

Cantonment Hill is a small rise overlooking the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia. Since the early 1900s the hill and the surrounding 4-hectare (9.9-acre) precinct has been mainly used for military purposes with extensive buildings now present. It has been under the control of the Department of Defence.

The area is known by the indigenous Whadjuk people as Dwerda Weelardinup, meaning "place of the dingo spirit" and the peak is also referred to as Walyarup, meaning "sea-eagle nest".

The site includes the last remaining stand of pre-European settlement Rottnest Island pine (Callitris preissii) on the mainland of Western Australia.

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