Kalgoorlie - Boulder - Western Australia

	Kalgoorlie - Boulder WA 6430
	Population: 31,000, Height above sea level: 470m Latitude: 30.44610 Longitude: 121.30000 Location: 595km east of Perth Highway: Great Eastern Hwy Nearest Major Town: Kalgoorlie Nearest Airport: Kalgoorlie Touring Area: Goldfields - Esperance
Founded in 1893 during the Yilgam-Goldfields gold rush it it at the centre of the 'Golden Mile', a fabulously wealthy deposit yielding mainly gold, but other minerals including nickel. It was originally known as 'Hannan's' after Paddy Hannan who filed the first claim in 1893 and is now remembered with a statue/drinking fountain in the main street of this bustling city, also named after him. To service the town and area, a railway was constructed from Perth in 1896 and the town grew from some 2,000 people in 1898 to around 30,000 in 1903. Expansion saw it encroach into nearby Boulder and the city is now officially named Kalgoorlie-Boulder as it was absorbed. Now one of Australia's most exciting cities it is noted for its its Hay Street brothels, one of which also serves as a museum and is a major national attraction, and the two-up school. Two-up is a gambling game where two coins are tossed into the air and gamblers bet on whether they land as 2 heads, 2 tails, or odds. Main places of interest include a water pipeline, designed by C. Y. O'Connor to pipe fresh water from Mundaring Weir near Perth, the goldfields railway loopline, the Kalgoorlie Town Hall, the Super Pit, an open cut mine and Mount Charlotte lookout.