BEST WESTERN GREAT WESTERN MTL

Family Rooms.

HOTELYEAR BUILT 1989ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DESCRIPTION STAR RATING 3.5 COME TO THE BEST WESTERN GREAT WESTERN MOTEL AND DISCOVER THE HISTORIC TOWN OF NORSEMAN, THE GATEWAY TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA AND THE NULLARBOR. LOCATED 726 KILOMETERS EAST OF PERTH AND 278 MILES ABOVE SEA LEVEL, NORSEMAN IS THE LAST MAJOR TOWN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA BEFORE HEADING EAST ACROSS THE NULLARBOR PLAIN. THE QUEST FOR GOLD IN THE KALGOORLIE COOLGARDIE AREA LED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NORSEMAN. THE FIRST DISCOVERIES IN THE AREA WERE MADE IN 1892 ON WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE DUNDAS FIELD AND THE TOWN WHICH SPRANG UP IN THIS HARSH AND INHOSPITABLE ENVIRONMENT WAS CALLED DUNDAS , FOR THE LACK OF ANYTHING BETTER. TWO YEARS LATER THE TOWN WAS NAMED NORSEMAN AFTER A HORSE OWNED BY A PROSPECTOR NAMED LAURIE SINCLAIR. NORSEMAN GREW RAPIDLY, PROCLAIMED A TOWN IN 1895, WAS CONNECTED TO THE TELEGRAPH IN 1896, AND BY 1905 HAD A POPULATION OF 3000. THE AREA SUFFERED ACUTELY FROM A SHORTAGE OF WATER AND AN ISOLATION FROM MAJOR CENTRES. HOUSES WERE BUILT OUT OF ANYTHING MINERS COULD FIND AND RAINWATER WAS SUPPLEMENTED BY DISTILLING SALTWATER FROM THE NUMEROUS LAKES IN THE REGION. AREA SERVICES IMPROVED SLOWLY. THE RAILWAY ARRIVED IN 1927, RELIABLE WATER CAME IN 1936 AND THE SOUTHERN ROAD THROUGH ESPERANCE AND PORT AUGUSTA WAS UPGRADED IN 1941. MODERN NORSEMAN IS BASICALLY A LARGE, SPRAWLING TOWN DRIVEN BY MINING AND TOURISM.

PRINSEP STREET

AU > NORSEMAN

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