Madura (Western Australia)

Madura is a small settlement on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia in the Nullarbor desert and is 1253 km from Perth and 529 kilometers from Norseman away.

Madura was founded in 1876 for horse breeding by the British Indian Army who guarded the northwestern frontier of India, which now forms Pakistan's northwestern border. The horses were shipped from Eucla, the only access to the sea in the Great Australian Bight, from.

In the settlement there is a gas station that is open 24 hours, a motel and a caravan park, a restaurant and a bar Two kilometers west of the town is the Madura Pass, one of two elevations on the bay at all, from which 200 kilometers of large bay may be overlooked.