Paddy Hannan
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Patrick Hannan was a gold prospector whose lucrative discovery on 14 June 1893 set off a major gold rush in the area now known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia.
Paddy Hannan in the 1920s (courtesy LISWA)
Hannan's Western Australian miner's right, 1893
Hannan's grave in Melbourne General Cemetery, Section Y
1929 statue of Paddy Hannan in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Thomas Flanagan (prospector)
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Thomas Flanagan was a gold prospector who in 1893, together with fellow Irishmen Paddy Hannan and Dan Shea, found the first gold in what became the richest goldfield in Australia, in Kalgoorlie, Weste
The Centenerary Plaque of 1993, on the wall of the Town Hall in Kalgoorlie
The passenger ship "Marco Polo", in service from 1852 to 1867
Since 1897 a tree has marked the spot where gold was found on 14 June 1893
Close up of one of the dedications