Leonora   WA  6438
	Population: 400,   Height above sea level: 376m Latitude: -28.8000,  Longitude: 121.3300 Location:   835km ne of Perth, 237 n, of Kalgoorlie Highway:   Nearest Major Town: Kalgoorlie Nearest Airport: Kalgoorlie Touring Area: Goldfields - Esperance
Leonora is a small mining town with a number of major gold mines and the Murrin Murin laterite nickel project nearby. The area is too arid to support intensive agriculture, but there is a substantial pastoral industry. The first European explorer in the area was John Forrest, who visited in 1869. By 1897 a residential and business area had been established, and the town was gazetted as Leonora in 1898. In 2010, the Rudd Government relocated asylum seekers from Christmas Island to a former mining camp in Leonora.

The State Hotel in Leonora

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