1. Coolgardie
Wednesday 12th June 2013

2. Locating Coolgardie
• Coolgardie
• 40km from Kalgoorlie
• 550km from Perth

3. History of Coolgardie
• Aboriginal Name: Coolgcaby
• Local Name: The Old Camp
• First explored in the 1860s by Europeans

4. Historical Coolgardie

5. Coolgardie Gold Rush
• First Gold Find
• Arthur Bailey and William Ford in 1892
• Fly Flat
• Goldfields pipeline

6. 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

7. Coolgardie Today

8. Coolgardie Today

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

10. Coolgardie Tourism
• Goldfields and Coolgardie Museum
• Coolgardie Pharmacy Museum
• Coolgardie Camel Farm
• Ben Prior‟s Park

11. Coolgardie Pharmacy
Museum

12. Ben Prior‟s Park

13. 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

14. Coolgardie
• http://www.streetviewandmaps.com/en/map/au/83
1090-Coolgardie-Western-Australia/#/point/-
30.95593/121.167792/0/0/0/