Kundana, Western Australia Explained

Type:town
Kundana
State:wa
Coordinates:-30.705°N 121.226°W
Established:1897
Postcode:6430
Elevation:347
Dist1:586
Dir1:ENE
Location1:Perth
Dist2:28
Dir2:north
Location2:Coolgardie
Lga:Shire of Coolgardie
Stategov:Eyre
Fedgov:O'Connor

Kundana is an abandoned town in Western Australia located between Coolgardie and Bardoc in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia.

After 58 miners petitioned the government to have the townsite declared in 1896 the town was declared the following year. The area was initially known as Barkers Find after the prospector who first found gold in the area, and later was known as 21 mile. When the townsite was surveyed in 1896 the surveyor, he used the name White Flag that was also in common usage. Later still the surveyor general suggested the name Barkerton. The present name of Kundana was suggested by the surveyor, H. S. King, using the Aboriginal word, the meaning of which is not known.