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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...
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Wittenoom may
refer to:
People John
Burdett Wittenoom (senior) (1788–1855),
colonial chaplain of the Swan
River Colony Charles Wittenoom (senior) (1824–1866)...
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Wittenoom Gorge Airport (ICAO YWIT, IATA WIT) is a
former airfield that pla**** a role in
Wittenoom's asbestos industry. The
airfield was
operated by the...
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Edward Horne Wittenoom KCMG (12
February 1854 – 5
March 1936) was an
Australian politician who
served intermittently in the
Legislative Council of...
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Frederick Burdett Wittenoom (17
December 1855 – 11
September 1939) was an
explorer and
pastoralist in
Western Australia.
Frank Wittenoom was born in York...
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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...
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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...
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Group and
Leslie Thiess.
Between 1948 and 1966, CSR
operated mines at
Wittenoom,
Western Australia that
produced 161,000 tons of
crocidolite fibre. During...
- 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 Han**** 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...
