The Southern Outback
In the Southern Outback the goldfields of Western Australia provide the history and romance of the world's last great goldrush complete with magnificent heritage architecture, museums, art galleries, ghost towns and a fascinating history. It's all about courage, determination, extreme privation, isolation hard work, ingenuity plus wealth and success. Today's Kalgoorlie-Boulder is a sophistocated bustling city where the past is always on show alongside a thrusting, thriving economy.
The goldrush of the late 1890s did literally 'rush' through this area. What it left behind are some fascinating mining and ghost towns where Gold Fever still lingers. It is the Kalgoorlie Goldfields region where you can have a true adventure experience – camping under the brilliant canopy of the southern outback stars, experiencing Aboriginal culture and seeing kangaroos and other unique wildlife...
The Nullarbor Plain is the section of southern outback land between Norseman in Western Australia and Ceduna in South Australia. Nullarbor means 'no trees' in poor Latin, which is exactly what you will see as you drive through sections of the Nullarbor...
Named for Edward John Eyre the Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia. It forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. Its route number is National Highway 1 in Western Australia and National Highway A1 in South Australia. Constructed during the World War II, the last section was finally sealed in 1976...
If there is any resonant image of the difficulty of human habitation in the outback on the Nullarbor Plain in the it has to be the much photographed ghost remnant of an old Telegraph Stationold at Eucla. Now it is no more than a few old stone walls slowly disappearing under mountainous white sand dunes on the edge of the Great Australian Bight. It is hard to think of any more lonely and isolated image in the whole of Australia...
The Great Australian Bight is a large bight, or open bay, encompassing an area of the Southern Ocean located off the central and western portions of the southern outback coastline of mainland Australia. By definition of the International Hydrographic Bureau, the Great Australian Bight extends eastward from West Cape Howe, Western Australia, to South West Cape, Tasmania...
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