Southern Cross, Western Australia

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Southern Cross
Western Australia
File:Southern Cross, Western Australia.jpg
Southern Cross townsite
Southern Cross is located in Western Australia
Southern Cross
Southern Cross
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Population 762 (2011 census)[1]
Established 1890
Postcode(s) 6426
Elevation 355 m (1,165 ft)
Location
LGA(s) Shire of Yilgarn
State electorate(s) Eyre
Federal Division(s) O'Connor
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
25.5 °C
78 °F		 10.7 °C
51 °F		 294.9 mm
11.6 in

Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres east of state capital Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded by gold prospectors in 1888, and gazetted in 1890.[2] It is the major town and administrative centre of the Shire of Yilgarn.[3] At the 2011 census, Southern Cross had a population of 762.[1]

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.[4]

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, and the town's streets are named after constellations and stars.[5][6][7]

The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling.[8]

Southern Cross is in the Federal electorate of O'Connor.[9]

Railway station

Southern Cross railway station is on the standard gauge railway from Perth to Kalgoorlie. The construction and opening of the line from Perth was completed on 1 May 1967, and the connection to Kalgoorlie via Koolyanobbing was completed by 4 November 1968 [10]

The Prospector and Indian Pacific passenger trains service the town.

Narrow gauge line

The former narrow gauge railway reached Southern Cross on 1 July 1894.[11][12][13] and the Southern Cross to Coolgardie narrow gauge railway (via Boorabbin) was closed 29 November 1971 [14]

In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding.[15]

See also

References

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  11. ↑ Milne, Rod Wheat, Gold and Humming Birds: Southern Cross in Diesel Days Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, December, 2001 pp443-449
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