Loading bay at Port Hedland

All gorged out? Not yet!

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September 28th 2010
Here we are then at Karijini National Park, via a free overnight stay north of Port Hedland, a damp overnight at Auski Roadhouse and 2 nights too many in Port Hedland, sorry guys this place is the pits, well to be accurate, mountains. Mountains of iron ore, rock salt and many other minerals are piled high ready for loading at the docks, where at any one time there can be up to 25 container ships a ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more