Two Rocks

Two Rocks is a beautiful coastal suburb at the northern edge of Perth, Western Australia, 61 kilometres north of the Perth CBD. Select MORE for information on the suburb, its neighbourhood and history

Two Rocks contains a marina development which between 1981 and 1990 was the home of the Atlantis Marine Park and the hub of the Yanchep Sun City development. The large heritage–listed limestone sculpture of King Neptune by American sculptor Mark Le Buse is a major landmark in the suburb and is a remnant of the defunct Atlantis Marine Park.

Almost the suburb's entire population live within a few kilometres near the coast on either side of the marina.

Two Rocks is part of the City of Wanneroo local authority and represents the furthest northern extent of the Perth metropolitan region, close to Yanchep. Both coastal suburbs sit within the City’s Transitional Coastal Place Management Area – See Yanchep Two Rocks Local Area Plan, which guides how these unique places will be developed, managed and activated now and in the future.

Almost, 4,500 people currently live in Two Rocks, which is expected to grow to more than 18,000 people over the next 20 years. Find out more about your neighbourhood.

Two Rocks is a beachside suburb named after two prominent rocks offshore from Wreck Point and was approved as a suburb name in 1975.

Its history dates back to 1658 when Dutch seaman Abraham Leeman van Santwits came onshore looking for survivors of the Dutch ship Vergulde Draeck, which was wrecked at this location. To commemorate this historical occasion, the Leeman’s Landing Monument was erected to mark the landing site at an ocean lookout point on Marcon Street.

In 1974, the Two Rocks Marina development was opened with the aim of attracting buyers to the nearby Yanchep Satellite City and tourist resort, which was built by businessman Alan Bond.

This followed the opening of the Atlantis Theme Park in 1981, which was to be the first step in turning the area into a “premier leisure recreation region”. Located in Enterprise Avenue, Atlantis was a popular water and wildlife theme park in the 1980s, featuring performing seals, dolphins, water slides, an oceanarium and swimming pools.

The streets in the suburb were named after yachts from America's Cup challenges. After Australia won the 1983 International Yachting race it was planned to host the series at Two Rocks, but was instead held in Gage Roads off Fremantle between 1986 and 1987.

Unfortunately, Atlantis did not prove to be the money-maker its creators had hoped and by the end of the eighties, it was closed down in 1990. Access to the site is prohibited, however the King Neptune statue is visible from the road, and some of the Park's other sculptures are now located in the adjoining shopping centre and in the grounds of the nearby Club Capricorn.

A large bushfire in the area in 1991 destroyed many dwellings in the suburb. With the nearby town of Yanchep once again highlighted as a future satellite city and major metropolitan centre in the Western Australian State Government's "Directions 2031" urban expansion plan, the population of Two Rocks is expected to boom over the next twenty years.

The Marina is now undergoing a $6 million upgrade funded by the Department of Transport and construction is underway on the Joondalup Rail Line to Yanchep.

(Historic information courtesy of Wanneroo Community History Centre)

Details Population: 4,453 (2021 estimate from 2016 Census) Area: 52 km2 (20.1 sq mi) Local Government Area: City of Wanneroo Phone: 08 9405 5000 Email: enquiries@wanneroo.wa.gov.au