Western Australia Tourist Region
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
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
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
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
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
Cable Beach is a 22-kilometre white sand beach in the popular Western Australian tourist town of Broome. The beach spans from Broome at the southern end up to Willies Creek in the north, where we went to Willie Creek Pearl Farm the day before. The main location of Cable Beach is about 6 kilometres north … Read more
