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The stadium on the river.
A riverbank on Whadjuk Noongar country, a stadium for more than 60,000 people and a walk around its roof offer several ways into the story of Optus Stadium.
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Whadjuk Noongar country
THE OZONE describes the stadium as built on Whadjuk Noongar country, and the tour looks out over the Derbarl Yerrigan, the Swan River. The site has heritage significance for the Whadjuk Noongar people as a burial site.
The stadium’s story, which begins in this century, is a recent chapter in the much longer history of this land.
A stadium for Western Australia
The state government chose Burswood for a new stadium in 2011. Building began in December 2014, and Optus Stadium opened to the public on 21 January 2018 as the home ground of the West Coast Eagles and Fremantle.
This Optus Stadium HALO page is part of the Apollonaut Global Travel Platform, operated by Apollonaut Pty Ltd (ACN 703 643 485, ABN 74 703 643 485). The History page offers a longer introduction.
The roof and HALO
The stadium’s fabric roof covers 85 per cent of the seats, on cantilevered trusses that give it a halo effect. The HALO rooftop tour opened in February 2021, and in March 2022 the Vertigo platform, which projects 5 metres beyond the roof, followed.
The timeline gives a short route through these milestones.
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