Carine

Originally forming part of the Hamersley Estate, which also included the suburbs now known as North Beach, Waterman and Hamersley, Carine is named after two swamps in the area. The Carine swamps were recorded by R. Quinn in an 1865 survey of Big Carine Swamp and Small Carine Swamp. The Hamersley family, who arrived from Europe to settle in the Swan River Colony in 1837, owned the Hamersley Estate. The majority of land at Carine remained largely undeveloped until the 1960s with only a few market gardens established in the low-lying portions around the wetlands.

In the early 1970s, the part of the suburb south of what is now Reid Highway was built, and in 1973 Carine High School opened. For several years, the high school and the Carine Gardens Caravan Park and surrounding market gardens on Balcatta Road were the only facilities in the suburb. From 1975 onwards, the residential suburb was built progressively, with the last two stages being completed in 1987, west of Osmaston Road and the Lake Carine Gardens estate Carine has a large amount of public open space with Carine Regional Open Space is associated with the Carine swamps containing the new skate park, 3 ovals, tennis courts and an extensive tract of natural bushland for passive recreation. Big Carine Swamp and Little Carine Swamp are now preserved as natural wetlands and home to rare waterbirds, frogs, turtles and other wildlife.