Red Lake, Western Australia

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Red Lake
Western Australia
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Red Lake
Location of Red Lake and the Red Lake Townsite Nature Reserve
Red Lake, Western Australia
Coordinates 33°08′58″S121°42′33″E / 33.14942°S 121.70917°E / -33.14942; 121.70917
Established1922
Postcode(s) 6446
Area1.39 km2 (0.54 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s) Shire of Esperance
State electorate(s) Roe
Federal division(s) O'Connor

Red Lake is an abandoned town in the Shire of Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is situated within the locality of Grass Patch, on the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway. [1] [2]

The townsite is on the traditional land of the Kalaako people, who are also referred to as the Malba or Malpa, a name given to them by the Wudjari people to the south in reference to their customs, meaning they were circumcised and subincised. [3] [4]

Originally selected as a siding on the Norseman to Esperance railway in 1916, Red Lake was gazetted as a townsite in 1922. [5] [6] An official 1922 map of the townsite shows the town west of the telegraph line and consisted of the north-south running Stephenson and Duke Streets and the east-west running Taylor Street, with 32 blocks off land allocated along them. [7]

The Red Lake Townsite Nature Reserve, gazetted on 14 March 1969 with a size of 0.76 square kilometres (0.29 sq mi), now occupies the western part of the townsite. It is located in the Mallee bioregion. [2] [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "SLIP Map". maps.slip.wa.gov.au. Landgate . Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 "NationalMap". nationalmap.gov.au. Geoscience Australia . Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies . Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "Kalaako (WA)". samuseum.sa.gov.au. South Australian Museum . Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  5. ↑ "History of country town names – R". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  6. ↑ "Railway map of Western Australia 1946". Trove. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  7. ↑ Western Australia. Department of Lands and Surveys (1922). "Townsite of Red Lake" (Map). Townsite of Red Lake. Perth: Dept. of Lands & Surveys W.A., 1922. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  8. ↑ "Terrestrial CAPAD 2022 WA summary". www.dcceew.gov.au/. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water . Retrieved 24 December 2024.
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