Kundana is an
abandoned
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Common uses
* Abandonment (emotional), a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded
* Abandonment (legal), a legal term regarding property
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town in
Western Australia located between
Coolgardie and
Bardoc in the
Goldfields–Esperance
The Goldfields–Esperance region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located in the south eastern corner of Western Australia, and comprises the local government areas of Coolgardie, Dundas, Esperance, Kalgoorlie–Bo ...
region of Western Australia.
After 58 miners petitioned the government to have the townsite declared in 1896 the town was declared the following year.
The area was initially known as Barkers Find after the
prospector who first found
gold in the area, and later was known as 21 mile. When the townsite was surveyed in 1896 the
surveyor
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, he used the name White Flag that was also in common usage. Later still the surveyor general suggested the name ''Barkerton''. The present name of Kundana was suggested by the surveyor, H. S. King, using the
Aboriginal
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*Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology
* Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area
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word, the meaning of which is not known.
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Goldfields-Esperance
Ghost towns in Western Australia