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Koolbiri, known as 'Mailman Jimmy' who for many years carried the mail on foot between Fowlers Bay and Eucla in the early days of colonial settlement on the South Australian West Coast.

Following Mailman Jimmy's death the Saturday Journal reported on 25 August 1923; "He was the Royal Mail between Fowlers Bay and Eucla for many years.

He ran with the mail bags every fortnight from the Bay to Eucla, a distance of 280 miles, and returned during the following fortnight.

He could do the journey in faster time than a man on horseback, owing, it was presumed to be his superior bushcraft skills, and his knowledge of the reliable water supplies...."

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Almost a century later, Mirning elder Bunna Lawrie said Koolbiri's story was a source of pride.

"The only man who could walk as fast as a horse," he said.

"Some people really didn't believe it – they thought, 'This man must be a magic man.'"

Mr Bunna hoped other people would learn about this, and draw inspiration from, the mailman's story in the future.

Tom Gara, a historian who has worked with Aboriginal people on the Nullarbor since the 1980s, said Koolbiri's incredible feats were still remembered, both in records and in oral histories.

"He's quite well known in the early historical sources relating to the Nullarbor Plain," Mr Gara said.

Without Koolbiri's efforts, Mr Gara believes the new Eucla settlement would have had no means to communicate at all.

Mr Gara guessed Koolbiri probably did the mail run from about 1871-72 until 1875-76, before the telegraph station was built in 1877.

While Mr Gara said mail was delivered on foot by other postmen, he had never heard of any travelling nearly as far as Koolbiri.

"He was supposedly rewarded with to***co, which sounds like a pretty meagre payment for what he was doing," Mr Gara said.

The author of Koolbiri's obituary also noted he took almost nothing with him, aside from the mailbags.

"He survived by hunting along the way, and getting his water from the rock holes and things that he knew about," Mr Gara said.

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Reproduction photograph of Koolbiri c1875. (State Library of South Australia)

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