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 Tourism
• Goldfields and Coolgardie Museum
• Coolgardie Pharmacy Museum
• Coolgardie Camel Farm
• Ben Prior’s Park

10. Coolgardie Pharmacy
Museum

11. Ben Prior’s Park