Kulja, Western Australia
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Kulja is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia
. The town is situated along the Bonnie Rock
Burakin
Road.
The area was charted in 1908 and the Indigenous Australian name of a local soak
was recorded as Kulja.
The townsite was originally established in the late 1920s as part of a railway siding on the Ejanding
North Railway line.
The townsite was gazetted in 1928 once a large enough local population had settled in the area.
between 1928 and 1973. There was also a post office called Kulja Railway Construction between 1929 and 1931.
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...
. The town is situated along the Bonnie Rock
Bonnie Rock, Western Australia
Bonnie Rock is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.The town was once the terminus of the railway to Beacon.The name of the town originated from a rock formation that is situated close to the town that was named by a sandalwood cutter. The townsite was gazetted in 1932.-...
Burakin
Burakin, Western Australia
Burakin is a small town located near Kalannie in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.The townsite was gazetted in 1928. The name is an Aboriginal word of unknown meaning, and was suggested by the Wongan Hills Road Board in 1927. The original spelling was to have been Borrikin.Burakin...
Road.
The area was charted in 1908 and the Indigenous Australian name of a local soak
Soakage
A soakage, or soak, is a source of water in Australian deserts.It is called thus because the water generally seeps into the sand, and is stored below, sometimes as part of an ephemeral river or creek system.-Aboriginal water source:...
was recorded as Kulja.
The townsite was originally established in the late 1920s as part of a railway siding on the Ejanding
Ejanding, Western Australia
Ejanding is a townsite in the central Wheatbelt, located about north-northeast of Dowerin. It was originally a siding on the Ejanding Northward railway, a line built between the town now known as Amery, and Kalannie, around 1927. Amery was originally named Ejanding in 1910, but was changed to...
North Railway line.
The townsite was gazetted in 1928 once a large enough local population had settled in the area.
History
Kulja had a post officePost office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
between 1928 and 1973. There was also a post office called Kulja Railway Construction between 1929 and 1931.