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...

Wittenoom may refer to: People John Burdett Wittenoom (senior) (1788–1855), colonial chaplain of the Swan River Colony Charles Wittenoom (senior) (1824–1866)...

Wittenoom Gorge Airport (ICAO YWIT, IATA WIT) is a former airfield that played a huge role in Wittenoom's asbestos industry. The airfield was operated...

Frederick Burdett Wittenoom (17 December 1855 – 11 September 1939) was an explorer and pastoralist in Western Australia. Frank Wittenoom was born in York...

Group and Leslie Thiess. Between 1948 and 1966, CSR operated mines at Wittenoom, Western Australia that produced 161,000 tons of crocidolite fibre. During...

Sir Edward Horne Wittenoom KCMG (12 February 1854 – 5 March 1936) was an Australian politician who served intermittently in the Legislative Council of...

John Burdett Wittenoom (24 October 1788 – 23 January 1855) was a colonial clergyman who was the second Anglican clergyman to perform religious services...

squatter and station agent Sir Edward Wittenoom, and a nephew of Frank Wittenoom, after whom the town of Wittenoom is named. He was educated at High School...

Missouri, whose residents were exposed to a high level of dioxins, and Wittenoom, Western Australia, which was once Australia's largest source of blue...

by 1960. Crocidolite asbestos was mined in South Africa, Bolivia, and Wittenoom, Western Australia. Bolivian crocidolite was used in approximately 13...

john jr Hancock , and discovered asbestos at Wittenoom Gorge at the age of ten. He staked a claim at Wittenoom in 1934 and began mining blue asbestos there...

Mining (1990). The song was inspired by the experiences of workers at the Wittenoom asbestos mines who contracted various asbestos-related diseases. The "blue"...

worked in the mill at the asbestos mine in Wittenoom from 1948 to 1950.[citation needed] In the town of Wittenoom, asbestos-containing mine waste was used...

Kalamina, Wittenoom and Yampire Gorges—provide notable displays of the rock layers: Banded iron formation – Brockman iron formation Dolomite – Wittenoom dolomite...

Pilbara region, approximately 86 kilometres (53 mi) south-southeast of Wittenoom, and 87 kilometres (54 mi) east-southeast of Tom Price. The Pandjima peoples...

authorities of the Wittenoom Industrial Disaster. With a continuously rising death toll now believed to be in excess of 2000 people, the Wittenoom Industrial...

metres (4,098 ft) AHD. There are many extensively eroded gorges, such as Wittenoom Gorge. The twenty highest peaks in Western Australia are in the Hamersley...

mining, bagging and distribution of blue asbestos or crocidolite, in Wittenoom, in northern Western Australia. The operation, purchased in 1943 by CSR...

an A-Class license for friable asbestos.[citation needed] The town of Wittenoom, in Western Australia, was built around a (blue) asbestos mine. The entire...

many popular attractions, including Karijini National Park, Millstream, Wittenoom and Mount Nameless/Jarndunmunha. Tourist season usually goes from May...

collapsed balcony of the Golden Eagle hotel on the corner of Lane and Wittenoom St in Boulder.) Damaged by fire then demolished in 2012 Home from Home...

January 1982 in Arkaroola, South Australia and again on 21 January 2003 in Wittenoom, Western Australia. A list of extremes can be found in the tables below:...

in the world (such as Gilman, Colorado; Centralia, Pennsylvania; and Wittenoom, Western Australia) to be evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to...

timber mill closed in 1969. Whroo, a former mining town in Victoria. Wittenoom in Western Australia was the country's only source of blue asbestos (crocidolite)...

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boundary of the property about 50 km (31 mi) north of the ghost town of Wittenoom. Almost the entire area is covered by granted mining tenements or applications...

Priorities List Picher, Oklahoma Pripyat Seveso disaster Hafodyrynys Wittenoom, Western Australia Powell, William (December 3, 2012). "Remember Times...

outspoken; the single "Blue Sky Mine" describes asbestos exposure in the Wittenoom mine tragedy. The single peaked at No. 8 on the ARIA singles charts, top...

granddaughter of two of the colony's early settlers, Thomas Brown and John Wittenoom. Cowan's mother died when she was seven, and she was subsequently sent...

educated at Lilley and Stone Girls' High School in Newark John Burdett Wittenoom (1788–1855) – pioneer cleric and headmaster in Swan River Colony, Australia...