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Mount Magnet Mining and Pastoral Museum

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Mount Magnet Mining and Pastoral Museum
Mount Magnet Mining and Pastoral Museum
Mount Magnet Mining and Pastoral Museum
Mount Magnet Mining and Pastoral Museum
Mount Magnet Mining and Pastoral Museum
Phone:
+61 8 9963 4172

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9am - 4pm
Tuesday9am - 4pm
Wednesday9am - 4pm
Thursday9am - 4pm
Friday9am - 4pm
Saturday9am - 12pm


Mount Magnet is one of the Mid West region’s original gold mining towns, and the longest surviving gold mining settlement in Western Australia. The prominent hill that is adjacent to the current townsite was called West Mount Magnet in 1854 by explorer Robert Austin, having named a smaller hill 64 km away, East Mount Magnet . Both hills had an extremely high iron content which affected the readings of his compass. West Mount Magnet had its Aboriginal name reinstated by the Surveyor General in 1972, 'Warramboo, meaning campfire camping place. The magnetic variation at Mount Magnet is zero: magnetic north equals true north.
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