Southern Cross (Western Australia)

Southern Cross ( German: Southern Cross ) is a town of 762 inhabitants, located 371 kilometers east of Perth in Western Australia and 225 kilometers from Kalgoorlie. This can be achieved with the place vehicles on the Great Eastern Highway or the Indian Pacific railway line.

History

Explorers, such as HM Lefroy, the area passed already in 1863 before gold was discovered there and described the great agricultural potential. In addition, Charles Cooke Hunt and John Forrest were previously there. Farmer got there in the early 1880s. Established this place was in 1888 by the prospector Tom Risely and mock Toomey, the gold found four miles away from Koorkoordine. These named the place after the stars that they used to their orientation and today the streets and Lokalititäten the city names of the stars, including the salt lake located at Southern Cross.

Today

The town is the center of the Shire of Yilgarn. Yilgarn is the Aboriginal name for white stone or quartz. East of the town is a historic cemetery with the Miners Monoment ( German: miners monument) and the Yilgarn History Museum is in place, which is open daily. That's not far from so-called historical Golden Valley ( German: Golden Valley ) with a police station enables a retrospective in the ratios of the time from 1887/88, when gold was found there the first time.

Around the village there are large farms, sheep, cattle and pig breeding, and mines where gold, gypsum and iron are mined. The extraction of salt is another source of income of the people living there. Southern Cross is one of the cities, which is one of the gold fields of Kalgoorlie - Boulder.

Southern Cross is located on the railway line from Perth to Kalgoorlie and can be reached with the Indian Pacific or Transwa Prospector. The railway line was established in the year 1894.

Weblink

• Website of the Yilgarn Shire