Boorabbin was a location on the narrow gauge
Eastern Goldfields Railway
The Eastern Goldfields Railway, was built in the 1890s by the Western Australian Government Railways to connect Perth with the Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.
It is a part of the interstate standard gauge railway between Per ...
in
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
. It was halfway between
Southern Cross
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and
Coolgardie.
It was the location of a water tank used during the era of steam power on the railways. Construction of the tank began in 1896; it had a capacity of five and a quarter million gallons.
The townsite was gazetted in 1898. It was named by C.C. Hunt in 1865.
It is in the area of the
Boorabbin National Park
Boorabbin National Park is a national park in Western Australia, between Coolgardie and Southern Cross. It is located along the Great Eastern Highway for a distance of approximately 25 km with a width of 5 km on each side in Western A ...
, and Boorabbin Rocks.
The locality was identified as the nearest to a tragedy on the
Great Eastern Highway
Great Eastern Highway is a road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt and the Goldfields-Esperance, Goldfie ...
when three truck drivers were killed by bushfire across the highway in 2007.
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Goldfields–Esperance