Boorabbin, Western Australia

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Boorabbin was a location on the narrow gauge Eastern Goldfields Railway in Western Australia. It was halfway between Southern Cross and Coolgardie.

It was the location of a water tank used during the era of steam power on the railways. [1] Construction of the tank began in 1896; it had a capacity of five and a quarter million gallons. [2]

The townsite was gazetted in 1898. It was named by C.C. Hunt in 1865. [3]

It is in the area of the Boorabbin National Park, and Boorabbin Rocks.

The locality was identified as the nearest to a tragedy on the Great Eastern Highway when three truck drivers were killed by bushfire across the highway in 2007. [4]

Notes

  1. "The Boorabbin Tank". Western Mail . Perth, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 10 December 1897. p. 39. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  2. "Boorabbin". Western Mail . Perth, Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 2 October 1896. p. 7. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  3. "Town names". Archived from the original on 19 May 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  4. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. News (20 November 2009), WA coroner scathing on fire deaths, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 3 January 2020

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