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 played a huge role in Wittenoom's asbestos industry. The airfield was operated...
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Sir 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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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...
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CSR Limited (section Wittenoom asbestos mine)
Group and Leslie Thiess. Between 1948 and 1966, CSR operated mines at Wittenoom, Western Australia that produced 161,000 tons of crocidolite fibre. During...
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John Burdett Wittenoom (24 October 1788 – 23 January 1855) was a colonial clergyman who was the second Anglican clergyman to perform religious services...
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Missouri, whose residents were exposed to a high level of dioxins, and Wittenoom, Western Australia, which was once Australia's largest source of blue...
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Lang Hancock (section Wittenoom Gorge)
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...
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