Wiluna
Wiluna
Wiluna is an outback town with friendly people and a real bush atmosphere. The town is the starting or finishing point for the Canning Stock Route (an 1,800 kilometre track from Wiluna to Halls Creek) and is located on the Goldfields Highway, joining Meekatharra, Leonora and Kalgoorlie.
The town prospered with the discovery of gold in 1891, however today it is chiefly an administrative centre. Citrus orchards and emu farms are some of the successful local industries.
Wiluna offers visitors counter meals and accommodation at the local hotel/motel, and accommodation is also available at the Wiluna caravan park.
The most eastern edge of the Mid West region, Wiluna is predominantly an Indigenous community with close links to the Goldfields. For much of its existence, Wiluna has only been accessible via dirt or gravel roads. Recently however, the Kalgoorlie to Wiluna road was sealed, opening up access to the Goldfields, and plans are well advanced for the sealing of the Meekatharra to Wiluna road.
Wiluna has a proud Indigenous heritage and is a stop off on route to outback adventure drives such as the Canning Stock Route
The Shire of Wiluna covers an enormous area of some 184,000 square kilometres, which is predominantly a mining and pastoral area. The weather conditions are very harsh in the area with average rainfall of approximately 250mm (10 inches) per annum and extreme temperature variations between summer (over 40 degrees) and winter (below freezing).
The town of Wiluna is the principal centre in the Shire, and there are also a number of mining villages and aboriginal communities. The township of Wiluna is 966 kilometres northeast of Perth and is situated on the edge of the desert at the gateway to the Canning Stock Route and Gunbarrel Highway.
