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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 City of Whyalla (formally The Corporation of the City of Whyalla) is a local government area in South Australia, located at the north-east corner of the Eyre Peninsula. It was established in 1970, replacing the town commission, which had been running the town previously.
Walhalla is a town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in late 1862, and at its peak, home to around 4,000 residents. [2] As of 2023, the town has a population of 20 permanent residents, though it has a large proportion of houses owned as holiday properties. [3]
The railway is a key tourist attraction for Walhalla today, carrying around 35,000 passengers each year. The trains run on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays departing Walhalla at 10 am, 12 pm and 1.30 pm (with no 1.30 pm service on Wednesdays or from June to August), with increased daily services in school holiday periods. [2]
Giles was created at the 1991 electoral redistribution to replace the abolished electoral district of Whyalla. It covered an area that had traditionally been one of the few country areas where Labor consistently did well. Support for the party was particularly strong in the city of Whyalla, which had been a Labor bastion for most of the 20th ...
The site is north of Whyalla, on both sides of the Lincoln Highway. It was to consist of a total of 925,000 solar modules (later changed to 780,000), each 1 x 2 metres and 35 mm thick, mounted in groups of 85 modules in a north–south orientation on single-axis trackers. Each tracker will be 90 metres long, with 3 metre access between them ...
Whyalla was laid down by BHP at its Whyalla shipyard on 24 July 1940 as Yard Number 8. [9] [10] The corvette was launched on 12 May 1941 by Lady Barclay-Harvey, wife of the Governor of South Australia, and commissioned on 8 January 1942. [9] Whyalla was the first ship built by the Whyalla shipyard.
Whyalla Norrie is a suburb of Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia. It was gazetted as a distinct suburb in 1967, and had its boundaries altered in 1975 and 2000. It is bounded by Iron Knob Road, Norrie Avenue, Broadbent Terrace and MacDouall Stuart Avenue. It is part of the City of Whyalla. [1]