Hannans is a residential suburb of
Kalgoorlie-Boulder, a city in the
Eastern Goldfields
The Eastern Goldfields is part of the Western Australian Goldfields in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, covering the present and former gold-mining area east of Perth.
Extent and name origin
The region encompasses the town ...
region of
Western Australia. At the 2016 census it had a population of 2,546 people,
up from 2,483 in 2011.
Hannans is named after
Paddy Hannan
Patrick Hannan (baptised 26 April 1840 – 4 November 1925) was a gold prospector whose lucrative discovery on 14 June 1893 set off a major gold rush in the area now known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia.
The resulting goldfield has ...
, the prospector whose discovery of gold in 1893 led to the initial rush. The name Hannans (shortened from Hannan's Camp) originally referred to the Kalgoorlie townsite, and it was only much later in the city's history that it was applied to the current suburb.
Geography
Hannans contains Kalgoorlie-Boulder's northernmost dwellings, which are located around from the
Kalgoorlie town centre. The suburb is roughly diamond-shaped, with large areas of uncleared bushland in the north and east. Hannans is bounded by the
Leonora branch line of
Eastern Goldfields Railway to the north-east; by Killarney Street to the south-east; by a series of minor roads to the south-west; and to the north-west by a line running parallel to a track leading back to the railway.
Features
Hannans contains a government-run K-6 school, Hannans Primary School, which was established in 1992. Most of the suburb's north is occupied by the Karlkurla Bushland Park, which was created in 2000 and contains of native fauna designed to mimic the pre-mining environment.
KARLKURLA BUSHLAND PARK
Goldfields Tourism Network. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
See also
* City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
References
{{Suburbs of Kalgoorlie