CoolgardieWednesday 12th June 2013

Locating Coolgardie

• Coolgardie

• 40km from Kalgoorlie

• 550km from Perth

History of Coolgardie

• Aboriginal Name: Coolgcaby

• Local Name: The Old Camp

• First explored in the 1860s by Europeans

Historical Coolgardie

Coolgardie Gold Rush

• First Gold Find• Arthur Bailey and William Ford in 1892• Fly Flat

• Goldfields pipeline

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

Coolgardie Today

Coolgardie Today

Coolgardie Today

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-xbduRTZ_4

Coolgardie Tourism

• Goldfields and Coolgardie Museum

• Coolgardie Pharmacy Museum

• Coolgardie Camel Farm

• Ben Prior’s Park

Coolgardie Pharmacy Museum

Ben Prior’s Park

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

Coolgardie

• http://www.streetviewandmaps.com/en/map/au/831090-Coolgardie-Western-Australia/#/point/-30.95593/121.167792/0/0/0/