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CoolgardieWednesday 12th June 2013
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Locating Coolgardie
• Coolgardie
• 40km from Kalgoorlie
• 550km from Perth
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History of Coolgardie
• Aboriginal Name: Coolgcaby
• Local Name: The Old Camp
• First explored in the 1860s by Europeans
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Historical Coolgardie
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Coolgardie Gold Rush
• First Gold Find• Arthur Bailey and William Ford in 1892• Fly Flat
• Goldfields pipeline
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Coolgardie Today
• No longer an active gold mine town
• Still known as “Mother of The Western Australian Goldfields”
• Nation’s best preserved gold mining town
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Coolgardie Today
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Coolgardie Today
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Coolgardie Today
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-xbduRTZ_4
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Coolgardie Tourism
• Goldfields and Coolgardie Museum
• Coolgardie Pharmacy Museum
• Coolgardie Camel Farm
• Ben Prior’s Park
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Coolgardie Pharmacy Museum
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Ben Prior’s Park
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Coolgardie: Funny Fact
• Water was very hard to find in the area around Coolgardie – it was precious
• Miners often ‘shouted’ their mates a bath rather than a beer as they do today
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Coolgardie
• http://www.streetviewandmaps.com/en/map/au/831090-Coolgardie-Western-Australia/#/point/-30.95593/121.167792/0/0/0/