Ooldea
Ghost town · Australia
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- -30.450, 131.833
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: It is on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, 863 km (536 mi) west of Port Augusta on the Trans-Australian Railway.
History
Ooldea, known as Yuldea and various other names by Western Desert peoples (Aṉangu), is a tiny settlement in South Australia. It is on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain, 863 km (536 mi) west of Port Augusta on the Trans-Australian Railway. Ooldea is 143 km (89 mi) from the bitumen Eyre Highway.