Meekatharra Western Australia
Isolated and historic Western Australian gold mining town.
Meekatharra in Western Australia is the largest centre in the Murchison region. It is located approximately 500 kilometres inland from Geraldton. Meekatharra is a thriving mining, sheep and cattle district. Originally a gold prospecting town, first settled in 1896, the town and surrounding area features a host of old mining pits and relics from the wild Australian gold rush era.
Gold mining still continues on a small scale today, and as a visitor, you are welcome to try your luck at prospecting. And for nature-lovers, there are plenty of opportunities to see Western Australian animals and explore rock formations.
Today it is a centre of a vast shire which covers 99,974 square kilometres of semi-desert where the main activities are mining, sheep and cattle (there are only 48 properties in the shire).
It has an annual rainfall of 200-250 mm.
The main appeal of the town lies in the old gold mining history; a small number of interesting historic buildings; and its access to both Mount Augustus and the mining towns of Newman, Paraburdoo and Mount Tom Price which lie to the north.
It is widely recognised as one of the hottest towns in Australia. It recorded a temperature of 45°C in December, 1972 and had 30 consecutive days with temperatures over 100°F (37.77°C) in 1956.
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