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The woomera is held in one hand while the other hand places the butt of the spear on the woomera's hook; the hollow curved shape facilitates this alignment without looking. The woomera effectively lengthens the thrower's arm, greatly increasing the velocity of the spear.
Olympic Dam Highway commences at the intersection with Stuart Highway at Pimba and heads north, crossing the Trans-Australia railway line shortly afterwards, passing Woomera not long after, and continues in a northerly direction through arid zones for some distance before the old alignment of the highway, now named Olympic Way, branches northwest to Roxby Downs, meeting with it again some ...
The word woomera is an Australian Aboriginal word of the Dharug language of the Eora people of the Sydney basin; a woomera is a wooden spear-throwing device. [9] [10] [11] Woomera was adopted initially as an appropriate [12] name for the settlement of Woomera, [13] that is also called Woomera Village, based on a recommendation from Group Captain Alfred George Pither.
Woomera (English: / ˈ w ʊ m ə r ə /) originally refers to: Woomera (spear-thrower) , an Indigenous Australian spear-throwing tool Woomera may also refer to:
Woomera, unofficially Woomera village, is the domestic area of RAAF Base Woomera.Woomera village has always been a Defence-owned and operated facility. The village is located on the traditional lands of the Kokatha people [4] in the Far North region [5] of South Australia, but is on Commonwealth-owned land and within the area designated as the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA).
RAAF Base Woomera is an operational Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military airbase located within the 122,188-square-kilometre (47,177 sq mi) RAAF Woomera Range Complex, situated approximately 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) north [1] of the base's "village" area, in South Australia, Australia.
Launch Area 5 (LA5) is an operational site at the RAAF Woomera Test Range which forms the primary operational capability of the Woomera Range Complex. [1] [2] Originally LA5 was a rocket launch site which supported a number of British experimental launches, including the United Kingdom's first, and as of 2023 only, satellite launch.
All roads were unsealed tracks, while the main street was a dry rocky creek bed (unless there was a rare thunderstorm). There were few government agencies. Until a police station was opened in 1966, the police made routine weekly visits from Woomera, a mostly military town that supported the Woomera Test Range and Joint Defense Facility ...