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Kiwirrkurra, gazetted as Kiwirrkurra Community, is a small community in Western Australia in the Gibson Desert, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) east of Port Hedland and 700 kilometres (430 mi) west of Alice Springs. [4] It had a population of 165 in 2016, mostly Aboriginal Australians. [5] It has been described as the most remote community in ...
Tourism sign post in Yalgoo, Western Australia. The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.The Outback is more remote than the bush.While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the ...
Telfer is a minesite and company town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, within the Great Sandy Desert. It is the state's most isolated town and is located 1,300 kilometres (808 mi) north-east of the state capital Perth. [3] The gold, copper, and silver mine is run by Newcrest Mining, and is one of the largest gold mines in Australia.
This is a list of Towns of Western Australia. In Australia, including in the state of Western Australia , towns are commonly understood to be centres of population not formally declared to be cities or not within the urban area surrounding a city.
Remote Western Australia is a designation of areas of Western Australia that are either isolated or well away from the main concentrations of population and services found in the south west of the state. The usage of the phrase remote Western Australia is considered synonymous with the term outback Western Australia. [1] [2] [3]
Western Australia is the largest state of Australia, with an area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi), [1] and its fourth most populous, with a population of 2,660,026 as of the 2021 Australian census. [2] Official population statistics are created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, who have a census every five years. The most ...
Larrimah is a remote town and locality in the Northern Territory of Australia, approximately 431 kilometres (268 mi) southeast of the territorial capital of Darwin and 158 kilometres (98 mi) southeast of the municipal seat of Katherine. [11] It is on the Stuart Highway. [11]
Remote cities. The most remote city with a population in excess of one million from the nearest city with a population in excess of one million is Auckland, New Zealand. The nearest city of comparable size or greater is Sydney, Australia, 2,168.9 km (1,347.7 mi) away. [75]