Boorabbin, Western Australia
Ghost town in Western Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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