Cossack WA: abandoned pearling port

Where: Australia · Oceania · approx. -20.68, 117.19 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Birthplace of WA pearling from 1863, up to 80 luggers by the early 1870s, industry moved to Broome by the mid 1890s and the town was abandoned after the 1940s

What turns up: eyes-only: bluestone bond store, courthouse, lugger anchorage, mother-of-pearl shell fragments and old glass along the tidal foreshore

Access: Restricted.

Heritage-listed museum town managed since 2021 by the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Foundation, removing material from the townsite or foreshore is not permitted, look-only with camera

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.