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Esperance

Port, Australia.

About Esperance

Town in Western Australia.1

Where next

Places

Shipped throughKalgoorlie-BoulderThe Goldfields-Esperance region takes in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, where Hannan claimed in 1893.2An example ofGeraldtonAnother port in Australia: Geraldton.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1007665 (Esperance)
  2. Wikidata item Q329503 (Kalgoorlie-Boulder)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.