South Stirling is a townsite and locality of the City of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

Other close small towns are Mount Barker, Wellstead, and Manypeaks.

The town was established in the early 1950s as part of the South Stirlings War Service Land Settlement Scheme but it was only gazetted after enough settlers had been attracted.

[4] It is the hometown of Hockeyroos player Kathryn Slattery, who represents Australia in field hockey.

[5] The South Stirling Nature Reserve was gazetted on 15 March 1963, has a size of 1.715 square kilometres (0.662 sq mi), and is located within the Esperance Plains bioregion.