Southern Cross (Western Australia)

Southern Cross
State :  Australia State : Western Australia Founded : 1890
Coordinates : 31 ° 15 ′  S , 119 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 15 ′  S , 119 ° 20 ′  E
Residents : 638 (2016)
Time zone : AWST (UTC + 8) Postal code : 6426
LGA : Shire of Yilgarn Website : www.yilgarn.wa.gov.au
Southern Cross

Southern Cross (German: Kreuz des Südens ) is an Australian city in Western Australia with 640 inhabitants (2016). It is 371 kilometers east of Perth and 225 kilometers west of Kalgoorlie .

history

Explorers like HM Lefroy passed the area in 1863 before gold was discovered there and described the great agricultural potential. Furthermore, were Charles Cooke Hunt and John Forrest previously there. Farmers came there in the early 1880s. Southern Cross was founded in 1888 by gold prospectors Tom Risely and Mock Toomey who found gold four miles from Koorkoordine . They named the place after the stars they used for their orientation and today the streets and localities of the city have names of the stars including the salt lake at Southern Cross . The Perth-Kalgoorlie railway line has existed since 1894.

today

The place forms the center of the Shire of Yilgarn . Yilgarn is the Aboriginal name for white stone or quartz . East of the city is a historic cemetery with the Miners Monument (German: Bergmannsdenkmal). The Yilgarn History Museum is located in the village. The not far away, so-called historical Golden Valley (German: Goldenes Tal) with a police station allows a look back at the conditions of the time around 1887/88, when gold was first found there.

economy

Agriculture

There are large farms around the place where sheep, cattle and pigs are raised.

Extraction of raw materials

In mines is gold , gypsum and iron mined. Southern Cross is one of the towns that is part of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder gold fields.

Salt production is another source of income for the population.

traffic

Southern Cross is on the Great Eastern Highway and the Perth to Kalgoorlie railroad . Regular trains are the Indian Pacific and the Transwa Prospector .

Web links

Commons : Southern Cross, Western Australia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Yilgarn Shire

Individual evidence

1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Southern Cross (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
2. ^ Southern Cross - A mixture of wheatbelt and goldmining town ( English ) The Sydney Morning Herald . February 8, 2004. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
3. ↑ Southern Cross ( English ) Yahoo! 7 Total Travel. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 7, 2014.