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Whyalla / w aɪ ˈ æ l ə / is a city in South Australia.It was founded as "Hummocks Hill", and was known by that name until 1916. [5] [6] It is the fourth most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier and Gawler and along with Port Pirie and Port Augusta is one of the three towns to make up the Iron Triangle.
The BHP Whyalla Tramway is a 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge heavy-haul railway, 112 kilometres (70 miles) long, on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It runs from haematite mines at Iron Monarch , Iron Baron and Iron Duke in the Middleback Range , about 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Whyalla , to company steelworks at the coastal city of Whyalla .
The Whyalla Steelworks receives iron ore mined at various sites along the Middleback Range.Iron ore mining in this region dates back to at least 1900. Prior to the steelworks' construction, the ore was shipped from Whyalla (then known as Hummock Hill) to Port Pirie for use as a flux in smelters. [2]
Adelaide, state capital Blue Lake at Mount Gambier Murray Bridge in the distance Victor Harbor View from Hummock Hill, Whyalla Gawler Street, Mount Barker Aerial view of Port Lincoln View of Port Pirie. Urban Centres and Localities (UCLs) represent areas of concentrated urban development with populations of 200 people or more.
Iron ore shipment facilities were instead constructed by BHP at Whyalla, which was then known as Hummock Hill. In 1937, Backy Bay was officially named Fitzgerald Bay after a former South Australian parliamentarian and member for Port Pirie , John Christopher Fitzgerald [ 13 ] who believed that a prosperous future for the upper Spencer Gulf ...
Hogg Hummock earned a place in 1996 on the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of the United States’ treasured historic sites. But for protections to preserve the community ...
At Hummock Hill, fencing of the bare site to exclude dairy cattle led to the regeneration of the indigenous flora. The second project was located on the current site of the Ada Ryan Gardens in Whyalla, and involved the management of invasive beach sand dunes, by fencing to exclude rabbits and cattle, allowing the indigenous flora to recover.
A Georgia judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing local officials of race discrimination when they approved zoning changes to one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave ...