Paroo, Western Australia

{{Short description|Town in Western Australia}}

{{Use Australian English|date=December 2013}}

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Paroo is a locality in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It was a stop on the now closed Wiluna Branch Railway which ran between 1932 and 1957.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11271810 |title=Fire on train. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=10 January 1940 |accessdate=4 April 2012 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94969427 |title=Wiluna. |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=38 |issue=9374 |location=Western Australia |date=22 March 1932 |accessdate=30 July 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The locality was also known as White Well.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94787190 |title=Wiluna. |newspaper=Kalgoorlie Miner |volume=37 |issue=9283 |location=Western Australia |date=5 December 1931 |accessdate=30 July 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

It was also a point of intersection with the Rabbit-Proof Fence number 1.

According to Western Australian Government Railways, the former railway station altitude was the highest in the Western Australia railway system in the 1940s, being {{convert|1916 |ft|m}} above sea level.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59451530 |title=High Spot. |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Perth |date=8 September 1946 |accessdate=4 April 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240353522 |title=Highest Railway Point |newspaper=The Mullewa Mail |volume= |issue=1905 |location=Western Australia |date=15 October 1932 |accessdate=14 October 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}