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 Hills is a rural locality of the Shire of Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. A substantial part of the locality...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The Kau Rock Nature Reserve, which also stretches into neighbouring Wittenoom Hills and Mount Ney, was gazetted on 2 August 1974, has a size of 158...

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

John Hancock Jr , 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...

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

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...

Education[2] Edward Wittenoom 19 December 1894 12 May 1897 Henry Lefroy 12 May 1897 28 April 1898 Minister for Mines Edward Wittenoom 19 December 1894 28...

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...

The Kau Rock Nature Reserve, which also stretches into neighbouring Wittenoom Hills and Neridup, was gazetted on 2 August 1974, has a size of 158.14...

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

Australia". It was originally based at Onslow, with a second office at Wittenoom. It originally had nine members divided into six wards, but by 1977 had...

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

discovered at Wittenoom, it was mined from the 1930s and was discontinued in 1966 because of unprofitable production costs. Wittenoom was Australia's...

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...

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)...

Williams Wiluna Wilyabrup Windanya – Abandoned Windy Harbour Witchcliffe Wittenoom Wokalup Wongan Hills Wonnerup Woodanilling Woodarra Woodridge Wooramel...

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:...

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

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...