Tin Dog Creek
Tin Dog Creek (31°15′S 117°03′E / 31.250°S 117.050°E[1]) is a small watercourse in Dowerin, Western Australia.
The name is said to have come from gold miners travelling to the Yilgarn goldfields who called their tinned beef "tinned dog" and would discard tins at the creek.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Tin Dog Creek page Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine at Geoscience Australia
- ^ Places to See page Archived 5 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine at the Shire of Dowerin web site