Tien Tsin Lookout is on a hill in the abandoned town of Cossack in Western Australia. The town was first called Tien Tsin Harbour, named after the basque Tien Tsin that landed the first cattle stock into the area. Other names in the area came from the same ship. Butcher’s Inlet is named after Chief … Read more
Reader Head is on the northern point of Cossack, an abandoned port town in the north-west region of Western Australia. It dates back to 1863 when it was included in a map of Tien Tsin Harbour recorded in 1863. Reader Head was the first light beacon for Cossack, running on oil or kerosene. It was … Read more
Settlers Beach is a north-facing beach beside Reader Head at the abandoned town of Cossack. The beach was used as a drop-off and pick-up point for vessels that would have found the shallow inlet at Cossack too difficult to navigate. The shallow inlet is a reason why Cossack was eventually abandoned to the close-by port … Read more
The school house is in the abandoned town of Cossack in Western Australia. The town became the main port servicing the north-west region and the start of the pearling industry in the late 1800s. The old school house at Cossack was constructed in 1896. It seems odd that the school was built after the pearling … Read more
Cossack is an abandoned ghost town in Western Australia at the mouth of the Harding River. In the 1870s, Cossack was a very different place. It was a thriving port in the Pilbara region, filling the need of a port after the establishment of the first town in the North West of Western Australia, Roebourne. … Read more
