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Buningonia Land District
Buningonia Land District is a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia, located within the Eastern Land Division on the Nullarbor Plain. It spans roughly 30°10'S - 32°00'S in latitude and 122°15'E - 124°00'E in longitude. Location and features The district is located on the Nullarbor Plain in the south-east of the state and falls generally East of the city of Kalgoorlie. The Trans-Australian Railway roughly bisects the district. The Aboriginal settlement of Cundeelee Cundeelee is a small Aboriginal community in Western Australia located east of Perth and east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Cundeelee had a population of 102. A ration depot had ... and the railway towns of Coonana and Zanthus are located within its boundaries. History The district was created on 4 March 1903. The description of the boundaries was subsequently amended on 8 May 1907, and published in the Government Gaze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampton Land District
Hampton Land District is a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia, located within the Eastern Land Division in the Goldfields region of the state. Location and features The district is located in the central Goldfields region, and contains the following towns or former towns: * Kalgoorlie–Boulder: ** Brown Hill † ** Hannans ** Ivanhoe † ** Lakewood † ** Parkeston ** Somerville ** Trafalgar † * Balagundi † * Bardoc † * Black Flag † * Boorara † * Broad Arrow † * Bulong † * Feysville † * Gindalbie † * Golden Ridge † * Gordon † * Gudarra † * Kanowna † * Kurnalpi † * Mulgarrie † * Ora Banda * Paddington † * Windanya † † — former or ghost town Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * Ghost Town (1936 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' .... History Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Land Division
The Eastern Land Division is one of five cadastral land divisions Western Australia, Australia, within the eastern parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region and the Pilbara region. Most of its territory is covered by deserts, including the part of the Great Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert and Great Victoria Desert. History The Eastern Land Division was created on 2 March 1887, in a reform to the land divisions. On 28 March 1917, the Central Land Division had been incorporated into the Eastern Land Division. The current boundaries of the land enacted on 30 March 1998. Prior to the construction of the Trans-Australian Railway The Trans-Australian Railway, opened in 1917, runs from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain in the process. As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the easter ... in 1917, the Eastern Land Division, which consists almost entirely of the Great Victoria and Great Sandy De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanthus, Western Australia
Zanthus is a remote and uninhabited outpost on the Trans-Australian Railway approximately east of the regional city of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. Transport A Transport hub, depot existed at Zanthus prior to 1915 when the east to west section of the Trans Australian Railway was still not completed. Trains were arriving daily at the station in 1915 mostly carrying materials to the railhead from Kalgoorlie. Passengers were stranded at Zanthus in 1948 when a train was delayed resulting from floodwaters causing washaways along the tracks between Zanthus and Kalgoorlie. Several passengers completed the journey to Kalgoorlie via a Goldfield Airways airplane while over 50 men worked to fix the two big washaways. A derailment of a train occurred in 1953 when five coaches of the transcontinental eastbound express left the tracks near the town tearing up a section of the line. Repair crews worked through the night and built a deviation by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coonana, Western Australia
Coonana is a small Aboriginal community in Western Australia located east of Perth, between Kalgoorlie and Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Coonana had a population of 83. The community is situated on the pastoral lease Upurl Upurlila Ngurratja and is about south of the Trans-Australian Railway line between the stations of Chifley and Zanthus Zanthus is a remote and uninhabited outpost on the Trans-Australian Railway approximately east of the regional city of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. Transport A depot existed at Zanthus prior to 1915 .... References {{reflist Aboriginal communities in Goldfields-Esperance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cundeelee, Western Australia
Cundeelee is a small Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, Aboriginal community in Western Australia located east of Perth, Western Australia, Perth and east of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. At the Census in Australia#2006, 2006 census, Cundeelee had a population of 102. A ration depot had been established in the area in 1939 followed by an Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission being set up in 1950. By 1952, the Mission (Christianity), mission had attracted 130 people from the surrounding desert. When surveyed in 1971 the community had 47 children at the mission school. Grants were awarded in 1973 to 1975 which allowed the mission to construct toilets, ablution blocks and a dam. The community became incorporated in 1976 and took over the management of the town in 1978. At this time the community consisted of 50 people of European descent and 250 Indigenous Australians. Cundeelee was closed in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans-Australian Railway
The Trans-Australian Railway, opened in 1917, runs from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain in the process. As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the eastern states, the line is strategically important. The railway includes the world's longest section of completely straight track. The inaugural passenger train service was known as the ''Great Western Express''; later, it became the ''Trans-Australian''. , two passenger services use the line, both of them experiential tourism services: the ''Indian Pacific'' for the entire length of the railway, and ''The Ghan'' between Port Augusta and Tarcoola, where it leaves the line to proceed north to Darwin. History In 1901, the six Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia. At that time, Perth, the capital of Western Australia, was isolated from the remaining Australian states by thousands of miles of desert terrain and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includes the historic townsite of Boulder and the local government area is the City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder. Kalgoorlie-Boulder lies on the traditional lands of the Wangkatja group of peoples.The name "Kalgoorlie" is derived from the Wangai word ''Karlkurla'' or ''Kulgooluh'', meaning "place of the silky pears". The city was established in 1893 during the Western Australian gold rushes. It soon replaced Coolgardie as the largest settlement on the Eastern Goldfields. Kalgoorlie is the ultimate destination of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme and the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail. The nearby Super Pit gold mine was Australia's largest open-cut gold mine for many years. At August 2021, Kalgoorlie–Boulder had an estimated urban population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nullarbor Plain
The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of , 'no', and , 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north. It is the world's largest single exposure of limestone bedrock, and occupies an area of about . At its widest point, it stretches about from east to west across the border between South Australia and Western Australia. History Historically, the Nullarbor was seasonally occupied by Indigenous Australian people, the Mirning clans and Yinyila people. Traditionally, the area was called ''Oondiri'', which is said to mean "the waterless". The first Europeans known to have sighted and mapped the Nullarbor coast were Captain François Thijssen and Councillor of the Indies, Pieter Nuyts, on the Dutch East Indiaman '''t Gulden Zeepaert'' (the Golden Seahorse). In 1626–1627, they charted a stretch of the southern Australian coast eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edjudina Land District
Edjudina Land District is a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia, located within the Eastern Land Division. The district began its modern economic history with the discovery of gold. Historic gold production of 33,215 oz @ 46.9 g/t of gold from this prospect was sourced from four major underground mines developed on these quartz lodes over a strike length of 1.4 kilometres between 1898 and 1939. Pastoral activities (sheep and cattle) were developed concurrently, and mining and exploration remains active in the region. Edjudina Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in Western Australia approximately 80 miles N of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. In 1969, the Edjudina Stony Meteorite was discovered on Edjudina Edjudina Station is a pastoral lease within the Edjudina Land District of Western Australia, that operates as a sheep station. The station is approximately to the south of Laverton and north east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lands Administrative Divisions Of Western Australia
The lands administrative divisions of Western Australia refer to subdivisions of the state of Western Australia for cadastral (land title) purposes, most of which have been in place since the 19th century. The state is divided up for this purpose into five land divisions, which in turn are subdivided into land districts, which correspond to counties in other Australian states. These districts are then subdivided further into numbered locations, as well as gazetted townsites. Together, they form part of the lands administrative divisions of Australia. Land divisions There are five land divisions in Western Australia, as specified in Schedule 1 of the Land Administration Act 1997. *Eastern Land Division *Eucla Land Division * Kimberley Land Division *North West Land Division *South West Land Division The Rabbit-proof fence is the border between the North West and South West divisions on the western side, and the others on the eastern side. In practical terms, the divisions ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngalbain Land District
The lands administrative divisions of Western Australia refer to subdivisions of the state of Western Australia for cadastral (land title) purposes, most of which have been in place since the 19th century. The state is divided up for this purpose into five land divisions, which in turn are subdivided into land districts, which correspond to counties in other Australian states. These districts are then subdivided further into numbered locations, as well as gazetted townsites. Together, they form part of the lands administrative divisions of Australia. Land divisions There are five land divisions in Western Australia, as specified in Schedule 1 of the Land Administration Act 1997. *Eastern Land Division *Eucla Land Division *Kimberley Land Division *North West Land Division *South West Land Division The Rabbit-proof fence is the border between the North West and South West divisions on the western side, and the others on the eastern side. In practical terms, the divisions are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
