Is it legal to collect at Cossack WA: abandoned pearling port?

Restricted. Heritage-listed museum town managed since 2021 by the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Foundation, removing material from the townsite or foreshore is not permitted, look-only with camera

What can you find at Cossack WA: abandoned pearling port?

eyes-only: bluestone bond store, courthouse, lugger anchorage, mother-of-pearl shell fragments and old glass along the tidal foreshore

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Australia, Western Australia

Cossack WA

Abandoned pearling port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Wreck timber

Also reported: eyes-only: bluestone bond store, courthouse, mother-of-pearl shell fragments and old glass along the tidal foreshore.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain).

Why this spot

Birthplace of WA pearling from 1863, up to 80 luggers by the early 1870s, industry moved to Broome by the mid 1890s and the town was abandoned after the 1940s

Ghost townsite, National Trust listed buildings and pearling history documented, foreshore shell and glass scatter follows from eight decades of port life