Karratha is a city in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Australia, established in 1968 to house the workforce for Hamersley Iron's mining operations and later petroleum and liquefied natural gas projects, adjacent to the port of Dampier. It had a population of 17,013 at the 2021 census, and its name is drawn from a local Aboriginal cattle station and is generally understood to mean good or soft country.
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1. GeoNames: Karratha
GeoNames geonameid 6620339 (Karratha), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Karratha, Western Australia (Wikipedia)
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Located about 140 kilometres (87 mi) east-southeast of the site of three nuclear weapons tests by the British (Operation Hurricane in 1952 and Operation Mosaic in 1956), it was established in 1968 to accommodate the processing and exportation workforce of the Hamersley Iron mining company and, in the 1980s, the petroleum and liquefied natural gas operations of the Woodside-oper
Karratha (Wikipedia)
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