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Version 2.0 of Google Maps Mobile was announced at the end of 2007, with a stand out My Location feature to find the user's location using the cell towers, without needing GPS. [198] [199] [200] In September 2008, Google Maps was released for and preloaded on Google's own new platform Android. [201] [202]
This is a route-map template for the Strahan–Zeehan Railway, a railway in Australia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Jurong Town Hall, or Trade Association Hub (TA Hub) is a commercial building and the former headquarters of the Jurong Town Corporation. The building is symbolic of the success of Singapore's industrialisation programme in Jurong and was gazetted as a national monument on 2 June 2015. [ 6 ]
[2] The importance of the construction of roads in the West Coast was recognised in the 1920s [3] but materialised in the 1960s or later. Following the early rough stages of the Zeehan Highway and the Strahan to Queenstown road it was possible to travel between Zeehan and Strahan in the 1940s. [4]
Zeehan / ˈ z iː ə n / is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia 139 kilometres (86 mi) south-west of Burnie. It is part of the West Coast Council , along with the seaport Strahan and neighbouring mining towns of Rosebery and Queenstown .
Melba Flats is a railway siding on the Melba railway line east of Zeehan that served as a terminus for trains carrying copper ore from the Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company in West Coast, Tasmania, once the Emu Bay Railway ceased services into the Zeehan townsite. [1] The section of line near Melba Flats was operational by December 1900.
Silver was discovered early in the Dundas area in 1890, [5] and the name of the Dundas field was incorporated into that of the adjacent Zeehan field. [6] A number of mines near Dundas are known as locations of rare minerals: [7] Adelaide Mine near Dundas was the location of special specimens of crocoite, [8] stichtite [9] and other rare minerals.
The perspective view shows a very impressive group of buildings crowned by a dome and tower of fine proportions. The details and plans are excellently drawn, and illustrate in an artistic manner a most striking and effective design." [3] The foundation stone for the town hall was laid on 24 May 1924, by the Mayor of Colombo, Thomas Reid, CCS. [4]