A self-guided audio walk through Fremantle, Walyalup, on Whadjuk Noongar country at the mouth of the Derbarl Yerrigan, the Swan River. It starts at the passenger terminal on Victoria Quay and passes the C. Y. O'Connor Memorial and the Maritime Museum to the Round House, the colony's first gaol, opened in 1831, the Whalers Tunnel cut through Arthur Head in 1837 and 1838, and Bathers Beach, where whales were once hauled ashore. The Shipwrecks Museum in the convict-built Commissariat and the 1899 court house lead into the West End: the High Street streetscape surveyed in 1829, the Customs House, the Town Hall of 1887 and St John's Anglican Church. The walk ends uphill with the markets, the old synagogue, the Warders' Cottages of 1851, the gatehouse of Fremantle Prison, built by convicts between 1852 and 1859, St Patrick's Basilica, consecrated in 1900 with its spire still unbuilt, the Proclamation Tree, and the former lunatic asylum that is now the Fremantle Arts Centre. Cruise ships berth at the passenger terminal on Victoria Quay, where the walk begins.
19 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 275 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 107 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Fremantle Passenger Terminal, C. Y. O'Connor Memorial, WA Maritime Museum, Round House, Whalers Tunnel, Bathers Beach, WA Shipwrecks Museum, Old Court House.
High Street heritage streetscape, Customs House, Fremantle Town Hall, St John's Anglican Church.
Fremantle Markets, Fremantle Synagogue, Warders' Cottages, Fremantle Prison, St Patrick's Basilica, Proclamation Tree, Fremantle Arts Centre.
The twelve-sided limestone gaol opened in January 1831, Western Australia's oldest public building, with its daily time-ball drop.
Cut through the limestone of Arthur Head by prisoners in 1837 and 1838 to carry whale oil from Bathers Beach into town.
The convict-built Commissariat stores of 1852, now galleries of shipwrecks including the Batavia, with the old shoreline marked in brick.
Opened on 22 June 1887 at the junction of William and High Streets, with a 32-metre clock tower over the old Kings Square.
Limestone terraces built by convict labour from 1851 for prison warders, with the inscription V.R. 1851 on one pilaster.
The Convict Establishment built by convicts between 1852 and 1859 from limestone quarried on the site, in use as a prison until 1991.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 19 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 19 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Fremantle — the Convict Port and the West End, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
19 narration points, including Fremantle Passenger Terminal, WA Maritime Museum, Round House, Whalers Tunnel and Bathers Beach. That is about 35 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 19 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.