Wittenoom, Western Australia
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wittenoom-western-australia-188-10180812
title:
Wittenoom, Western Australia
text:
Wittenoom is a former town and a declared contaminated site, 1,420 kilometres (880 mi) north-north-east of Perth, in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The declared contaminated site comprises 50,000 hectares, making it the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere. The area around Wittenoom was mainly pastoral until the 1930s when mining for blue asbestos began. By 1939, major mining began in Yampire Gorge, which was closed in 1943 when mining began in Wi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Contaminated site and former town in Pilbara, Western Australia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia
date created:
2005-02-02T22:52:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T20:16:25Z
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13
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