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Wittenoom
Ghost town · Australia
Wittenoom is a former mining 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 46,840 hectares, making it the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere, an area nearly 1⁄5 the size of the Chernobyl exclusion zone area. The Government of Western Australia "strongly advises against all travel through Wittenoom and the surrounding areas".
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- Type
- Ghost town
- Country
- Australia
The exact position, directions, weather and the places around are on the map.
Other places nearby
- Fortescue FallsWaterfall
- Dales GorgeCanyon, gorge
- Kalmina GorgeCanyon, gorge
- Joffre GorgeCanyon, gorge
- Weano GorgeCanyon, gorge
- Hamersley GorgeCanyon, gorge