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Wiluna, Western Australia

Index Wiluna, Western Australia

Wiluna is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. [1]

48 relations: Asteroid, Asteroid belt, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian bustard, Australian Railway History, BHP, Bureau of Meteorology, Canning Stock Route, Climate change in Australia, Curlew, Desert climate, Division of Durack, Electoral district of Kalgoorlie, Fly-in fly-out, Gold, Governor-General of Australia, Gunbarrel Highway, H chondrite, Indigenous Australians, Köppen climate classification, Lake Maitland, Lake Way, Lawrence Wells, Major general, Maralinga, Martu people, Meekatharra, Western Australia, Meteorite fall, Michael Jeffery, Mid West (Western Australia), Millbillillie (meteorite), Narrow-gauge railway, Northern Railway (Western Australia), Perth, Sand goanna, Shire of Wiluna, Triodia (grass), Uranium ore, Western Australia, Western Australian Government Railways, Western Australian Museum, Western Mail (Western Australia), Wiluna Airport, Wiluna Gold Mine, World War II, Yeelirrie uranium project, 1900 Western Australian floods, 4 Vesta.

Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian bustard

The Australian bustard (Ardeotis australis) is a large ground bird inhabiting grassland, woodland and open agricultural country across northern Australia and southern New Guinea.

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Australian Railway History

Australian Railway History is a monthly magazine covering railway history in Australia published by the New South Wales Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society on behalf of its seven state and territory Divisions.

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BHP

BHP, formerly known as BHP Billiton, is the trading entity of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton plc, an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum dual-listed public company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Canning Stock Route

The Canning Stock Route is a track that runs from Halls Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Wiluna in the mid-west region.

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Climate change in Australia

Climate change has been a major issue in Australia since the beginning of the 21st century.

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Curlew

The curlews, genus Numenius, are a group of eight species of birds, characterised by long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage.

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Desert climate

The Desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk, sometimes also BWn), also known as an arid climate, is a climate in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub, and does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate.

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Division of Durack

The Division of Durack is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Western Australia.

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Electoral district of Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Fly-in fly-out

Fly-in fly-out is a method of employing people in remote areas by flying them temporarily to the work site instead of relocating employees and their families permanently.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

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Governor-General of Australia

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative of the Australian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II.

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Gunbarrel Highway

The Gunbarrel Highway is an isolated desert track in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.

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H chondrite

The H type ordinary chondrites are the most common type of meteorite, accounting for approximately 40% of all those catalogued, 46% of the ordinary chondrites, and 44% of the chondrites.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Lake Maitland

Lake Maitland is a dry salt lake located approximately south east of Wiluna, in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

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Lake Way

Lake Way is a dry saline lake located in the Mid West region of Western Australia, approximately south of Wiluna.

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Lawrence Wells

Lawrence Allen "Larry" Wells (30 April 1860 – 11 May 1938), frequently spelled Laurence Allen Wells, was an Australian explorer.

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Major general

Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Maralinga

Maralinga in the remote western areas of South Australia was the home of the Maralinga Tjarutja, a southern Pitjantjatjara Indigenous Australian people.

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Martu people

The Martu (Mardu) are a confederation of indigenous Australian peoples, who are part of the Western Desert cultural bloc.

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Meekatharra, Western Australia

Meekatharra is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

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Meteorite fall

Meteorite falls, also called observed falls, are meteorites collected after their fall from space was observed by people or automated devices.

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Michael Jeffery

Major General Philip Michael Jeffery (born 12 December 1937) is a retired senior Australian Army officer who was the 24th Governor-General of Australia, serving from 2003 to 2008, and the 30th Governor of Western Australia, serving from 1993 to 2000.

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Mid West (Western Australia)

The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Millbillillie (meteorite)

Millbillillie meteorite is a meteorite named after the cattle station in Western Australia on which it fell in October 1960.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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Northern Railway (Western Australia)

The Northern Railway has had a number of meanings in Western Australian railway history.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Sand goanna

The sand goanna (Varanus gouldii) is a species of large Australian monitor lizard, also known as Gould's monitor, the sand monitor, or racehorse goanna.

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Shire of Wiluna

The Shire of Wiluna is a local government area in the Mid West region of Western Australia, about northeast of the state capital, Perth.

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Triodia (grass)

Triodia is a large genus of hummock-forming bunchgrass endemic to Australia.

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Uranium ore

Uranium ore deposits are economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within the Earth's crust.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western Australian Government Railways

Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) was the operator of railway services in the state of Western Australia between October 1890 and June 2003.

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Western Australian Museum

The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia.

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Western Mail (Western Australia)

The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia.

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Wiluna Airport

Wiluna Airport is an airport located south south of Wiluna, Western Australia with a two runways (one sealed and one unsealed) and landing lights.

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Wiluna Gold Mine

The Wiluna Gold Mine is an active gold mine in Western Australia near the town of Wiluna.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yeelirrie uranium project

The Yeelirrie uranium project is a uranium deposit located approximately 70 km southwest of Wiluna, in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

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1900 Western Australian floods

The 1900 Western Australian floods were a series of flooding events from March to May 1900 that affected large areas of Western Australia, primarily in the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions, though it extended to cover most of the state except the more humid Kimberley and South West regions.

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4 Vesta

Vesta, minor-planet designation 4 Vesta, is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiluna,_Western_Australia

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