Forrest (WA)
- Local Government Area
- Kalgoorlie-Boulder
- Population
- 3
- Area
- 31,648.36 km²
- Coordinates
- -30.7755, 127.5666
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About Forrest (WA)
Forrest is a former small railway settlement and stopping place on the Nullarbor Plain, 85 kilometres (53 miles) west of the Western Australia / South Australia state border, established in 1916 during construction of the Trans-Australian Railway. It is on the part of the railway that is the longest – at 478.193 kilometres (297.135 miles) – stretch of straight railway line in the world. In the 2021 census, the settlement and surrounding area had "no people or a very low population".: 214
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Mundrabilla 96 km