Holiday Planner Welcome to Kalgoorlie Boulder
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Kalgoorlie Boulder 2020 Holiday Planner Welcome to Kalgoorlie Boulder (Yuwa, Kalgoorlie-Boulder-ngka, karnpi! It’s good you are here!) Kalgoorlie Boulder is situated 590 kilometres east-northeast of Perth in the heart of Western Australia’s Goldfields. The name Kalgoorlie derives from the Wangai word Karlkurla meaning (an important bush tucker plant) “Place of the Silky Pears” The Kalgoorlie Boulder Visitor Centre is ‘Your Guide to the Goldfields’. Uncover our living history, unique flora and fauna, cutting edge technologies and cosmopolitan lifestyle. What are you waiting for? Kalgoorlie Boulder can’t wait to meet you! 1 | kalgoorlietourism.com kalgoorlietourism.com | 2 KALGOORLIE BOULDER VISITOR CENTRE – “YOUR GUIDE TO THE GOLDFIELDS” Whatever your length of stay, our SERVICES AVAILABLE AFTER HOURS INFORMATION OPENING HOURS GET SOCIAL WITH US: passionate award winning customer Local and Regional Information An illuminated display box is Monday to Friday: service team can help you plan permanently located directly outside 9.00am to 5.00pm facebook.com/ your next visit, share information, Tours and Accommodation Bookings the Visitor Centre for 24-hours Saturday and Sunday: kalgoorliebouldervisitorcentre/ book accommodation, tours and access to a street map and local 9.00am to 2.00pm recommend attractions to fulfil Train and Bus Bookings information. Public Holidays: instagram.com/ your one of a kind outback travel 9.00am to 1.00pm kalgoorliebouldervisitorcentre/ experience. Car Rental Bookings Our website, kalgoorlietourism.com ANZAC Day – can also be accessed 24 hours a Half Day from 12noon onwards twitter.com/KBVisitorCentre Whilst at the Kalgoorlie Boulder Bike Hire Services and Bookings day for comprehensive information Closed: Visitor Centre, take a look through on local and regional accommodation, Christmas Day - Boxing Day - Youtube: youtube.com/user/ the extensive range of gifts, Souvenir and Gift Shop tours and attractions. Good Friday - New Years Day PureGoldKal souvenirs, products, gold jewellery and cultural items. Book Exchange LOCATION: www.tripadvisor.com.au/ Kalgoorlie Town Hall Attraction_Review-g255366- d7676254-Reviews-Kalgoorlie_ Do yourself a favour and take time Free Wi-Fi for visitors 316 Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie Boulder_Visitor_Centre-Kalgoorlie_ to explore our fascinating City and GPS: Lat -30.748746 Long 121.4705232 Boulder_Western_Australia.html captivating region. You will uncover Disability Access the charismatic gold rush history and CONTACT US: 1900s heritage. 08 9021 1966 [email protected] kalgoorlietourism.com 3 | kalgoorlietourism.com PERTH DISTANCE GUIDE 332 HYDEN 4:03 543 674 YALGOO 6:20 7.4 570 723 126 MOUNT 6:20 8 1.3 MAGNET 592 488 801 668 KALGOORLIE 6:30 5.3 8.4 8:00 649 801 204 80 747 CUE 7:01 8.5 2.2 0:55 8:50 720 614 929 852 187 932 NORSEMAN 8:00 6.45 9:55 9:55 2:00 10:45 724 619 660 536 132 616 317 MENZIES 7:50 6.5 8:05 6:40 1:25 7:35 3:15 714 382 1051 995 392 1075 205 521 ESPERANCE 7:50 4 11:20 11:20 4:10 12:15 2:10 5:25 828 722 557 433 236 513 420 104 625 LEONORA 9:00 7.5 7:05 5:40 2:25 6:30 4:15 1:05 6:30 952 845.6 680 556 359 636 544 104 748 124 LAVERTON 10:10 9.1 8:20 6:55 3:45 7:50 5:35 1:05 7:45 1:20 1495 1389 1224 1100 903 1179 1087 771 1292 667 553 WARBURTON 18:25 17.25 16:35 15:10 11:55 16:00 13:50 10:40 16:00 9:35 8:20 Distance (kilometres) To convert from km to miles, multiply by 0.621 Time (hours) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS COVER IMAGES HOW TO GET HERE DISCLAIMER Kalgoorlie Boulder Visitor Centre Remote Digital Imagery Air Bus This publication has been produced (KBVC) would like to acknowledge Front Cover: Virgin Australia and Qantas offer Purchase your tickets from the by the Kalgoorlie Boulder Visitor and thank the ongoing support from Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie regular services from Perth to Kalgoorlie Boulder Visitor Centre. Centre. All information contained in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Back Cover: Kalgoorlie Boulder. Flights from Perth A TransWA service operates from this publication has been compiled Kalgoorlie Boulder Urban Landcare Burt Street, Boulder take approximately one hour. Esperance to Kalgoorlie Boulder from information supplied by Group who have planted 1000 trees three times each week. There is also operators and services within in Kalgoorlie Boulder each year to DESIGNED BY The weekly east/west direct flight a weekly return bus service from Kalgoorlie Boulder. Whilst all care off-set the environmental impact for Interlusion from Melbourne, Victoria connects Kalgoorlie Boulder to Leonora and has been taken in producing this the production of the Holiday Planner. straight to Kalgoorlie Boulder. Laverton. publication, the Kalgoorlie Boulder MAP Visitor Centre accepts no liability Special thanks to tourism industry Interlusion Train Road for any alteration to any schedule bodies and KBVC members who Purchase your tickets from the Kalgoorlie Boulder is proud to be or service without notice and no have advertised in this publication. PRINTED BY Kalgoorlie Boulder Visitor Centre. recognised as an RV friendly town responsibility for any inconsistencies Visitors are encouraged to support Scotts Printing TransWA offers daily services from and offers free camping to fully or inaccuracies. these businesses. Perth to Kalgoorlie Boulder on the self-contained vehicles at Centennial © Copyright 2020 Prospector Train. Park. This camping is provided for 24 PHOTOGRAPHY Abby Murray Photography Kalgoorlie Boulder Visitor Centre hours and no permits are required. Australia’s Golden Outback The Indian Pacific provides a weekly Billy-Ray Stokes return service to Kalgoorlie Boulder Long vehicle parking is available on City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder from Perth, on the way to Adelaide Cassidy Street and available during Eastern Goldfields Historical Society and Sydney. Times and fares are daylight hours only on Brookman Kalgoorlie Boulder Racing Club subject to change. Street, Kalgoorlie and Hamilton Lynn Webb Melissa Drummond Street, Boulder. Museum of the Goldfields kalgoorlietourism.com | 4 TAKE A STEP BACK IN TIME – UNCOVER UNIQUE AND UNFORGETTABLE HISTORY Kalgoorlie Boulder is Australia’s In his absence, Flanagan and Shea time as Hannan’s Find, the State one twin City. Kalgoorlie Boulder is still aboard the Golden Mile Loopline largest Outback City, and one of the found another 100 ounces. Government chose the name one of the world’s biggest gold mining Railway Society Tram or by hiring an most famous gold mining centres The news broke when Hannan Kalgoorlie and the town was cities and that feeling of discovery Audio Walking Tour. Bookings can on the planet, covering an area of reached Coolgardie and the Hannan’s gazetted on 4 September 1894. and excitement is still present today. be made at the KBVC. 95,576 m2 and home to over 30,000 Find Rush started. people today. Its 126 years of history Just a few kilometres away from Both Kalgoorlie and Boulder The Boulder Town Hall was opened is intimately linked with the fortunes A week later more than 1400 men Kalgoorlie, the town of Boulder was showcase many beautiful examples of in June 1908 and the Kalgoorlie of Western Australia and, indeed, were working the new gold field. built through the discovery of ore gold rush architecture and buildings to Town Hall was opened in September Australia as a nation. Miners then came in their hundreds bodies by Will Brookman and Sam explore. In Kalgoorlie you will unearth 1908. The Boulder Town Hall houses and thousands, and traders followed. Pearce, who represented the South remarkable examples of architecture the remarkable stage curtain painted The first inhabitants were the Soon the rash of tents, shanties, Australian Prospecting Company. from bygone eras, including such by world-renowned theatrical scene Aboriginal people, who lived in this canvas-walled pubs, tent brothels This lead to the iconic discovery of gems as City Markets (1901), painter, Philip Goatcher. One of only vast region tens of thousands of years and timber frame shops grew into a the fabulously rich Ivanhoe lease, Government Buildings (1899), two left in the world! The Boulder before the early explorers paved the sizable settlement. Before Christmas later known as the Great Boulder York Hotel (1900), Palace Hotel (1897) Town Hall has staged world-class way for gold seeking prospectors. 1893 more than 100 mining leases Mine which formed the foundation of and Exchange Hotel (1895), performers including Dame Nellie had been pegged. However, many the ‘Historical Golden Mile’, reputedly the Kalgoorlie Town Hall (1908) and Melba in 1914 (who also performed In 1893, three down-on-their-luck came ill-prepared for the harsh the richest square mile on earth and The Kalgoorlie Miner building (1900). in the Kalgoorlie Town Hall) and Irishmen, Paddy Hannan, Tom conditions with inadequate food and one of the greatest concentrations of In the main street of Boulder, you AC/DC. Inside the Kalgoorlie Town Flanagan and Daniel Shea, stumbled water supplies, resulting in untold underground mines ever established. will encounter the Court Hotel (1900), Hall is the original tribute statue of across 100 ounces of alluvial nuggets. deaths. Nevertheless, the people The township of Boulder was gazetted Palace Theatre (1930) and the Boulder Patrick Hannan, with a replica statue On 17 June, Hannan reportedly rode that poured into the Goldfields had in December 1896. Town Hall (1908). positioned outside the building. his horse, his saddlebags weighed secured the fortunes and future down by nuggets to Coolgardie to development of Western Australia. In 1989, the two towns of Kalgoorlie Visitors and guests to the City are apply for a reward claim. Although still known locally at the and Boulder, amalgamated to form welcome to experience the sights 5 | kalgoorlietourism.com I Make a memory at the Kalgoorlie Boulder Visitor Centre.