Cook
Ghost town · Australia
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- -30.613, 130.413
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: Cook is a former railway town in South Australia.
History
Cook is a former railway town in South Australia. It is 824 kilometres by rail from Port Augusta, 863 kilometres by rail from Kalgoorlie, and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of the Eyre Highway via an unsealed road. It is on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world at 478 kilometres (297 mi).