Wittenoom
- Local Government Area
- Ashburton
- Postcode
- 6751
- Area
- 353.04 km²
- Coordinates
- -22.2502, 118.3053
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Wittenoom
Wittenoom is a former mining town and a declared contaminated site, 1,420 kilometres (880 mi) north-north-east of Perth, in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The declared contaminated site comprises 46,840 hectares (115,700 acres), making it the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere, an area nearly 1⁄5 the size of the Chernobyl exclusion zone area. The Government of Western Australia "strongly advises against all travel through Wittenoom and the surrounding areas".: 2 [a]
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Karijini 53 km
- Mulga Downs 55 km
- Chichester (WA) 55 km
- Juna Downs 67 km
- Mount Sheila 68 km
- Tom Price 72 km