Abbotts is an abandoned town in Western Australia located in the Murchison Goldfields region of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 located 31 km north-west of Meekatharra

Meekatharra, Western Australia

Meekatharra is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Meekatharra is an Australian Aboriginal word meaning 'place of little water'. At the 2006 census, Meekatharra had a population of 798, with 44.0% being Aboriginal....

 on the Meekatharra - Mount Clere Road.
The townsite was initially established on 1898 and gazetted in 1900; the town is named after a prospector

Prospecting

Prospecting is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens, and is also known as fossicking.Prospecting is a small-scale form of mineral exploration which is an organised, large scale effort undertaken by mineral resource companies to find commercially viable ore...

 named Vincent Vrauizan who had changed his name to Vincent Abbott in 1893.

One of the earliest mines to open was the The Black Iguana.

The townsite is one of many ghost towns in the area; others include: Peak Hill

Peak Hill, Western Australia

Peak Hill is the name of a goldfield, locality and the site of a gold mining ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia. The gold mine covers 2,162 hectares and consists of four open-cut mines, titled Main, Jubilee, Fiveways and Harmony....

, Gabanintha

Gabanintha, Western Australia

Gabanintha is a ghost town located in the Mid West region of Western Australia approximately 40km South East of Meekatharra on the Meekatharra-Sandstone road. The town is situated within the Murchison goldfields....

, Horseshoe and Garden Gully.