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Coolgardie is a small town in Western Australia, 558 kilometres (347 mi) east of the state capital, Perth.It has a population of approximately 850 people. [2]Although Coolgardie is now known to most Western Australians as a tourist town and a mining ghost town, it was once the third largest town in Western Australia (after Perth and Fremantle).
In commercial aviation, this means the time from pushing back at the departure gate to arriving at the destination gate. [2] Flight time is measured in hours and minutes as it is independent of geographic distance travelled. Flight time can be affected by many things such as wind, traffic, taxiing time, and aircraft used. [3]
A third act, the Coolgardie–Kalgoorlie Railway Act 1895, assented to on 2 October 1895, authorised construction of a railway line from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie. [8] The Eastern Railway opened in stages from Perth to Northam in the 1890s, and the Eastern Goldfields Railway extended this line through semi-desert to the Eastern Goldfields. [9] [10]
Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie.A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link between Perth and the eastern states of Australia.
During the time the narrow-gauge railway was in operation, due to the distances through dry country, dams and tanks were of importance to supply the steam engines in operation. Between Coolgardie and Esperance, water supply sources were from Water Supply Department (Coolgardie), Mines Department Dam (Widgiemooltha), [ 8 ] and WAGR dams.
Many major roads in Perth [4] and in rural Western Australia [5] are not assigned a route number. Not many routes have been added in the Perth and Peel regions since the 1990s with the exceptions including the Graham Farmer Freeway in 2000 and Mandjoogoordap Drive in 2010. A subsequent review of the system was undertaken in 2024 which resulted ...
Menang Drive (State Route 103) – Perth, Esperance, Port Albany, Albany Ring Road: Lockyer–Orana boundary: 116: 72: Albany Highway (State Route 30) north – Albany, Mount Barker, Kojonup, Perth: Eastern terminus of western section. No right turn from Albany Highway southbound: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
The initial survey flight took a total of 41 hours and 52 minutes of flying time done over seven days of November 14–20. Combining a 10-hour 21 minute flight from Sydney to Perth, an 8-hour 5 minute flight to the Cocos Islands, a 12-hour 8 minute flight to Mauritius, and a final 9 hour 40 minute flight to Johannesburg.