Old Telegraph Station

Point of Interest

Contact

Old Telegraph Station Road, Western Australia.

Description

Eucla was established in 1877 as a manual repeater station for the Overland Telegraph. Before the telegraph came, communication between Western Australia and the rest of the nations took months, but when the Eucla telegraph line and manual repeater station were established, transmitting messages only took a few seconds. Today the telegraph station remains in ruin.

Read more

Features

Location

Lat: -31.713842 Lng: 128.886447