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COOLGARDIE Arthur Bayley discovered gold in 1892 at Fly Flat, which became Coolgardie, and started the gold rush of the late 1890s in the area. The town now has a fraction of its former population and its neighbour Kalgoorlie, about 45 km away is by far the larger and busier of the two. KALGOORLIE 
Kalgoorlie is still a working goldmining town although the old
underground mines have now mainly given way to massive open cast pits.
There is also an excellent Museum of the Goldfields in town and Hannan
Street has beautifully restored federation style buildings.BOULDER In Boulder, 5km south of Kalgoorlie, is the Mining Hall of Fame. Boulder has largely been engulfed by Kalgoorlie but it does have some lovely restored buildings and there are also viewing platforms overlooking the nearby Super Pit open cast mine. The Royal Flying Doctor Service has a base here. |
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The Nullarbor is a huge, treeless, limestone
plain stretching 2000 km across the southern parts of Western Australia
and South Australia, next to the Great Australian Bight. It is crossed
by the Indian Pacific Railway and by the Eyre Highway, the latter
running close to the ocean across to Ceduna in South Australia where it
turns inland towards Port Augusta, ending in Adelaide. Near the border
with SA is Eucla where there are the ruins of the old Overland Telegraph
Station (pictured).