Southern Cross, Western Australia
- Southern Cross, Western Australia
Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Southern Cross
state = wa
caption = Southern Cross townsite
lga = Shire of Yilgarn
postcode = 6426
est = 1890
pop = 708
elevation= 355
maxtemp = 25.5
mintemp = 10.7
rainfall = 294.9
stategov = Eyre
fedgov = Kalgoorlie
dist1 = 371
dir1 = E
location1= Perth
dist2 = 225
dir2 = W
location2= Kalgoorlie
dist3 = 110
dir3 = E
location3= Merredincoord|-31.254|119.344|type:city(710)_region:AU-WA_scale:100000|format=dms|display=title
Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded by gold prospectors in 1888, and gazetted in 1890.[LandInfo WA|c|S|2008-02-18] It is the major town and administrative centre of the Shire of Yilgarn. [cite web]
publisher="Shire of Yilgarn"
title=Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia
url=http://www.yilgarn.wa.gov.au/
accessdate=2008-02-18] At the 2006 census, Southern Cross had a population of 708.[Census 2006 AUS]
id=SSC55581
name=Southern Cross (State Suburb)
accessdate=2007-10-18
quick=on] The town of Southern Cross is one of the many towns which run along the Mundaring to Kalgoorlie Goldfields Water Supply Scheme engineered by C. Y. O'Connor. [cite web
publisher="Heritage Australia"
title=Southern Cross
url=http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/search.php?state=WA®ion=160&view=1085
accessdate=2008-02-18]
A succession of gold rushes in the Yilgarn region near Southern Cross in 1887, at Coolgardie in 1892, and at Kalgoorlie in 1893 caused a population explosion in the barren and dry desert centre of Western Australia.
It is named after the Southern Cross constellation,[LandInfo WA|c|S|2008-02-15] and the town's most significant streets are named after stars.]Southern Cross is on the standard gauge railway from Perth to Kalgoorlie and beyond. The Prospector and Indian Pacific passenger trains service the town.The former narrow gauge railway reached Southern Cross on 1 July, 1894. ["Wheat, Gold and Humming Birds: Southern Cross in Diesel Days" Milne, Rod Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, December, 2001 pp443-449]
ee also
* Goldfields-Esperance
* Mundaring Weir
* John Forrest
* Helena River
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