Eastern Goldfields

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The Eastern Goldfields is a figurative area used in speech to describe parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.

Name

The name is derived in two parts from, Eastern in relation to its location from Perth and Goldfields as the name suggests comes from the mining of Gold in the region. The region encompasses the towns of Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Coolgardie, Kambalda, Southern Cross and other smaller settlements within this area.

Water

Water to the area is supplied by the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.

Vegetation and biological survey

In the 1980s, a series of surveys were reported for the broader region.[1]

The component areas were designated:

  • Lake Johnston - Hyden[2]
  • Edjudina - Menzies[3]
  • Youanmi - Leonora[4]
  • Duketon - Sir Samuel[5]
  • Kurnalpi - Kalgoorlie[6]
  • Norseman - Balladonia[7]
  • Sandston - Sir Samuel and Leonora - Laverton[8]
  • Boorabbin - Southern Cross and Barlee - Menzies[9]

Transport

The region was the destination of the long running Westland overnight railway sleeper train run by Western Australian Government Railways; for decades this was the main means of travelling to the "coast" or metropolitan Perth. The Prospector is now the main railway service into this area.[10]

Literary culture

It was the region of inspiration for a group of writers - Gavin Casey, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Henrietta Drake Brockman and others. It has been an important cultural region as far as labour history and Australian political history, with a rich worker and trade union history.

The history of the goldfields region also developed into a significant number of publications over time [11][12][13][14][15]

Ghost town legacy

See also

Notes

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  10. ↑ 100th anniversary of rail link (History of the Eastern Goldfields railway, officially completed on 1 January 1897, to the present, including introduction of the Prospector train on 29 November 1971) Kalgoorlie Miner 1 Jan. 1997, p. 2
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