The Millstream Chichester National Park is in Western Australia, previously two separate parks and joined as a single national park in 1982. Millstream was a pastoral land from the 1800s situated at the upper side of the Chichester Range. Millstream was named by an explorer, FT Gregory. Gregory reported it as a good grazing area … Read more
Deep Reach Pool in the Millstream Chichester National Park is a permanent water pool fed by an aquifer beneath the park keeping the water levels maintained during the dry. The Deep Reach Day Use Area has the facilities to make a day of visiting Deep Reach Pool with disabled access toilets, gas BBQs and picnic … Read more
The Millstream Homestead was built in 1919 on the pastoral station established in the late 1800s. The name comes from explorer Francis Thomas Gregory when he named Millstream Creek in 1861, noting it had enough water to operate a large mill. A lease in 1865 started with sheep and the station continued with sheep for … Read more
Located in the Chichester Range in Western Australia, Python Pool is a seasonal freshwater pool. It is in the Millstream-Chichester Range National Park, south of Roebourne and on the way to Millstream. The water pool is seasonal, however, there is usually water there all year round. During the dry season without water flow, Python Pool … Read more
The Emma Withnell Heritage Trail is in Western Australia. The trail is not an official tourist drive but is a 52km driving trail to a number of points of interest for tourists. The trail is named after Emma Mary Withnell who is known as the ‘Mother of the North-West’ and the ‘first lady of the … Read more
The Courthouse was built in 1895 during the declining years of Cossack , as were most of the stone buildings that remain in the abandoned ghost town. All of the stone buildings were built in the 1890s, with the exception of the Post Office. The port moved to the deeper waters of Point Samson. Combined … Read more
Her Majesty’s Regional Prison on the outskirts of Roebourne as it stands today was built in 1896, upgraded from an older four cell gaol first built in 1884. The original four cells were wooden and in 1887 they were replaced by four stone cells with an iron ring in the centre of the floor. The … Read more
Pearl Street is the main road in the abandoned town of Cossack. Most of the remaining buildings are in or near Pearl Street. The Cossack School is the furthest away, about 400m down Perseverance St which intersects with Pearl Street. The name of the street reflects the town’s pearling industry heritage. A map from the … Read more
The Asian Cemetery at Cossack is one of two established cemeteries in the abandoned town. Cossack was were the pearling industry began in Western Australia before it moved to Broome. The Asian cemetery is mainly of Japanese working in the pearling industry as divers. There are at least seven Japanese buried in the Asian cemetery, … Read more
New settlements in Australia were often harsh. Cemeteries can be a good place for learning the stories met by settlers and the Cossack Cemeteries tell of how unforgiving the North West was. There are two cemeteries with marked graves in Cossack, the European based graves and the Japanese Graves in a separate cemetery. The pioneers … Read more
