Images Dated 5th January 2014

Teapot and flask at the window opening of a miner's cottage in ghost town

Teapot and flask at the window opening of a miner's cottage in ghost town. Gwalia was a gold-mining town. Underground mining began in 1897 at the Sons of Gwalia mine that became the largest and deepest in Australia. The mine closed in 1963 and the population disappeared almost overnight. Gwalia, near Leonora, Goldfields region, Great Victorian Desert, Western Australia

View from the Granites

View from the Granites, escarpment formations created by erosion of the soft white granite from beneath a hard red brown iron cemented capping. The area is a significant rock art site and of great cultural importance to the Badimia people. Aboriginal people used it as a seasonal home for at least 20 000 years. Mount Magnet, Northern Goldfields, Western Australia

Rock art at Walga Rock, a monolith 5 km around the base and 1.5 km long

Rock art at Walga Rock, a monolith 5 km around the base and 1.5 km long, a site of deep cultural and spiritual significance to Aboriginal people. In a rich gallery of paintings is one of a ship that was long thought to be an early sailing ship but recent research reveals it was the work of a probable pearl diver, Sammy Hassan, in 1917, and the ship is the SS Xantho.


Walga or Walganna Rock, near Cue, East Murchison region, Western Australia