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High - speed rail is a type ___MASK10___ rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic , using an integrated system ___MASK10___ specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks . While there is no single standard that applies worldwide , new lines in excess ___MASK10___ and existing lines in excess ___MASK10___ are widely considered to be high - speed , with some extending the definition to include lower speeds in areas for which these speeds still represent significant improvements . The first such system began operations in Japan in 1964 and was widely known as the bullet train . High - speed trains normally operate on standard gauge tracks ___MASK10___ continuously welded rail on grade - separated right - ___MASK10___ - way that incorporates a large turning radius in its design . ___MASK100___ is the capital city ___MASK10___ the state ___MASK10___ ___MASK31___ , and the fifth - most populous city ___MASK10___ Australia . In June 2014 , ___MASK100___ had an estimated resident population ___MASK10___ 1 . 31 million . ___MASK31___ , with a total ___MASK10___ 1 . 7 million inhabitants , has the most centralised population ___MASK10___ any state in Australia , with more than 75 percent ___MASK10___ its people living in greater ___MASK100___ , while the other population centres in the state are relatively small . Kalgoorlie , part ___MASK10___ the City ___MASK10___ Kalgoorlie - Boulder , is a city in the Goldfields - Esperance region ___MASK10___ Western Australia , Australia , located east - northeast ___MASK10___ Perth at the end ___MASK10___ the Great Eastern Highway . The town was founded in 1893 during the Coolgardie gold rush , and is located close to the so - called " Golden Mile ". It is also the ultimate destination ___MASK10___ the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme and the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail . The Trans - Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor ___MASK14___ ___MASK10___ Australia from Port Augusta in ___MASK31___ to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia . It includes a stretch ___MASK10___ dead - straight track , the world ' s longest , between the post west ___MASK10___ Ooldea and the post west ___MASK10___ Loongana . The standard gauge ( also Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson , International gauge , or ___MASK39___ gauge ) is a widely used railway track gauge . Approximately 55 % ___MASK10___ the lines in the world are this gauge . All high - speed rail lines ( except those in Russia , Uzbekistan , and Finland ) are standard gauge . The distance between the inside edges ___MASK10___ the rails is defined to be ( except in the United States , where it is still defined in Imperial and US customary units as ). It is also called the UIC gauge or UIC track gauge , the European gauge in the EU and Russia , or uniform gauge in Queensland , Australia . Port ___MASK30___ is a small city in ___MASK31___ . It is a seaport and railway junction city mainly located on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf immediately south of the gulf ' s head and about north of the state capital . The suburb of Port ___MASK30___ West is located on the west side of the gulf on the Eyre Peninsula . Other major industries included , up until mid - 2010s , electricity generation . At June 2015 the estimated urban population was 14 , 214 . The Nullarbor ___MASK14___ (; Latin : " nullus ", " no ", and " arbor ", " tree ") is part ___MASK10___ the area ___MASK10___ flat , almost treeless , arid or semi - arid country ___MASK10___ southern Australia , located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north . It is the world ' s largest single exposure ___MASK10___ limestone bedrock , and occupies an area ___MASK10___ about . At its widest point , it stretches about from east to west across the border between ___MASK31___ and Western Australia . Cook is a railway station and crossing loop on the standard gauge Trans - Australian Railway from Port ___MASK30___ to Kalgoorlie , with no inhabited places around . It is 826 kilometres ( 513 mi ) by rail from Port ___MASK30___ , and is connected to the Eyre Highway by an unsealed road about 100 kilometres ( 60 mi ) long . Eyre Highway is a highway linking ___MASK61___ and ___MASK31___ via the Nullarbor Plain . Signed as National Highways 1 and A1 , it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide . It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre , who was the first European to cross the Nullarbor by land , in 1840  1841 . Eyre Highway runs from Norseman in ___MASK61___ , past Eucla , to the state border . Continuing to the South Australian town of Ceduna , it then crosses the top of the Eyre Peninsula before reaching the city of Port Augusta in ___MASK31___ . The City ___MASK10___ Kalgoorlie - Boulder is a local government area in the Goldfields - Esperance region ___MASK10___ Western Australia , about east ___MASK10___ the state capital , Perth . The City covers an area ___MASK10___ , and its seat ___MASK10___ government is the town ___MASK10___ Kalgoorlie ; all but 244 ___MASK10___ the city ' s population live in either Kalgoorlie or Boulder . In terms ___MASK10___ area , Kalgoorlie - Boulder is the largest city in Australia , and the third - largest city in the world , with a total area ___MASK10___ 95 , 575 km . The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project that delivers potable water from Mundaring Weir in ___MASK97___ to communities in Western Australia ' s Eastern Goldfields , particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie . The project was commissioned in 1896 and was completed in 1903 . ___MASK31___ ( abbreviated as SA ) is a state in the southern central part of Australia . It covers some of the most arid parts of the country . With a total land area of , it is the fourth - largest of Australia ' s states and territories . It has a total of 1 . 7 million people , and its population is the most highly centralised of any state in Australia , with more than 75 percent of South Australians living in the capital , Adelaide , or its environs . Other population centres in the state are relatively small . Great Eastern Highway is a ___MASK1___ that links the Western Australian capital ___MASK10___ Perth with the city ___MASK10___ Kalgoorlie . A key route for ___MASK1___ vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields , it is the western portion ___MASK10___ the main ___MASK1___ link between Perth and the eastern states ___MASK10___ Australia . The highway forms the majority ___MASK10___ National Highway 94 , although the alignment through the Perth suburbs ___MASK10___ Guildford and Midland , and the eastern section between Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie are not included . Various segments form parts ___MASK10___ other ___MASK1___ routes , including National Route 1 , Alternative National Route 94 , and State Route 51 . ___MASK61___ ( abbreviated as WA ) is a state occupying the entire western third ___MASK10___ ___MASK62___ . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west , the Great Australian Bight and Southern Ocean to the south , the ___MASK4___ Territory to the north - east and ___MASK31___ to the south - east . ___MASK61___ is ___MASK62___ ' s largest state with a total land area ___MASK10___ 2 , 529 , 875 square kilometres ( 976 , 790 sq mi ), and the second - largest country subdivision in the world  however , a significant part ___MASK10___ it is sparsely populated . The state has about 2 . 6 million inhabitants , around 11 % ___MASK10___ the national total . 92 % ___MASK10___ the population lives in the south - west corner ___MASK10___ the state . The Goldfields - Esperance region is one ___MASK10___ the nine regions ___MASK10___ Western Australia . It is located in the south eastern corner ___MASK10___ Western Australia , and comprises the local government areas ___MASK10___ Coolgardie , Kambalda , Dundas , Esperance , Kalgoorlie - Boulder , Laverton , Leonora , Menzies , Ngaanyatjarraku and Ravensthorpe . George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781  12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter - city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives , the ___MASK53___ and ___MASK96___ Railway which opened in 1830 . Renowned as the " Father ___MASK10___ Railways ", the Victorians considered him a great example ___MASK10___ diligent application and thirst for improvement , with self - help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements . His rail gauge ___MASK10___ , sometimes called " Stephenson gauge ", is the standard gauge by name and by convention for most ___MASK10___ the world ' s railways . In rail transport , track gauge is the spacing ___MASK10___ the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces ___MASK10___ the load - bearing rails . ___MASK97___ is the capital and largest city ___MASK10___ the Australian state ___MASK10___ Western Australia . It is the fourth - most populous city in Australia , with an estimated population ___MASK10___ 2 . 04 million living in Greater ___MASK97___ . ___MASK97___ is part ___MASK10___ the South West Land Division ___MASK10___ Western Australia , with the majority ___MASK10___ the metropolitan area ___MASK10___ ___MASK97___ located on the Swan Coastal Plain , a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp , a low coastal escarpment . The first areas settled were on the Swan River , with the city ' s central business district and port ( Fremantle ) both located on its shores . The ___MASK97___ Metropolitan Region includes 30 local government areas , which themselves consist ___MASK10___ a large number ___MASK10___ suburbs , extending from Two Rocks in the north to Rockingham in the south , and east inland to The ___MASK28___ . Edward John Eyre ( 5 August 1815  30 November 1901 ) was an English land explorer ___MASK10___ the Australian continent , colonial administrator , and a controversial Governor ___MASK10___ Jamaica . Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au ( from ) and the atomic number 79 . In its purest form , it is a bright , slightly ___MASK51___ yellow , dense , soft , malleable , and ductile metal . Chemically , gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element . It is one ___MASK10___ the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions . Gold often occurs in free elemental ( native ) form , as nuggets or grains , in rocks , in veins , and in alluvial deposits . It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver ( as electrum ) and also naturally alloyed with copper and palladium . Less commonly , it occurs in minerals as gold compounds , often with tellurium ( gold tellurides ). Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in ___MASK31___ . It is bounded on the east by Spencer Gulf , the west by the Great Australian Bight , and the north by the Gawler Ranges . It is named after explorer Edward John Eyre who explored parts of the region in 1839 - 1841 . The coastline was first charted by the expeditions of Matthew Flinders in 1801 - 1802 and French explorer Nicolas Baudin around the same time . The region ' s economy is primarily agricultural , with growing aquaculture , mining and tourism sectors . The main townships are Port Lincoln in the south , Whyalla and Port Augusta at the north east , and Ceduna at the northwest . Naming and extent . Eyre Peninsula was named after Edward John Eyre , the explorer , on 7 November 1839 by George Gawler , the second Governor of ___MASK31___ . The peninsula  s extent has been described as follows . Firstly , its coastline boundary was defined in 1839 as  boundary is Spencer ' s Gulf in its whole length , to the southern ocean from Cape Catastrophe to the western point of Denial Bay . Secondly , its northern boundary was described in 1978 as follows -  no official boundary ever proclaimed but the common sense choice would be to draw a straight line from Yorkey Crossing to the northern most point of Denial Bay .