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Whyalla. Art Deco style and frescoes of the steelworks in the cement rendering. It was completed in 1939 as the city grew with a steel works and with shipbuilding.
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum a gas producer used instead of petrol during World War Two. . .
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum a good collection of old telephones. . .
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum a working pump once used to pump water for sheep station stock. . .
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum an old movie projector with a poster for the film Gone With the film Wind behind it. . .
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum one of the old railway engines used by BHP from 1901 onwards to cart iron ore from Iron Knob to the port at Whyalla.
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum the railway plaque for the opening of the Port Augusta to Whyalla railway. It closed inthe 1980s. A Budd car train linked Whyalla and Adelaide. .
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Whyalla. Boats in the marina and the new orund jetty beyond.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum are models of some of the dozens of ships built by BHP in the Whylla shipyards.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum is the original compass of f the Iron Monarch built here by BHP in 1973. 179 metres long and over 19,500 tons.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum is this model of the Iron Monarch built here by BHP in 1973. 179 metres long and over 19,500 tons.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum is this photograph of a colourful giant cuttlefish which live and mate off the shores of Whyalla in Spencers Gulf. A diver's dream world.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum is this photograph of a colourful giant cuttlefish which live and mate off the shores of Whyalla in Spencers Gulf. An internationally recognised diver's dream world.
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Whyalla. looking across the circle of the new rond Whyalla jetty. It is illuminated with coloured lights and night.
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Whyalla. Lutine House built as office chambers probably for lawyers in the 1930s. Constructed of local red iron stone. Classical style pillasters and great symmetry.
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Whyalla. Mount Laura homestead. This sheep station was established in the 19th century. The galvanised iron section was built in 1910. These stone front rooms were added in 1922..
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Whyalla. Mount Laura homestead. This sheep station was established in the 19th century. The rear galvanised iron section was built in 1910. These stone front rooms were added in 1922..
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Whyalla. Mount Laura homestead. This sheep station was established in the 19th century. This angle shows the galvanised iron section which was built in 1910. These stone front rooms were added in 1922..
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Whyalla. One of the old BHP galvanised iron houses used by its workers. Built in Gay Street around 1910 to 1914. Now in the Mt Laura Homestead National Trust Museum.
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Whyalla. Salt bush country near Whyalla on Eyre Peninsula.
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Whyalla. The Art Deco style High School built in 1943.
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Whyalla. The Royal Australian Navy frigate the Whyalla was built here in 1941 by BHP. It is now part of the Whyalla Maritime Museum.
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Whyalla. The Royal Australian Navy frigate the Whyalla was built here in 1941 by BHP. It is now part of the Whyalla Maritime Museum. Entrance to the museum is beneath the Whyalla.
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Whyalla. The shady veranda of the stone section of Mount Laura homestead. The rear section was built in 1910 and this front section in 1922.
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Whyalla. The Whyalla Hotel built of local red iron stone in 1933. It was extended in 1940 and is now an apartment hotel.
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Whyalla. Viewing point of the city's new round yetty.
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Whyalla. View of the steel works and the former shipbuilding works from Hummock Hill.
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Whyalla. At the Mount Laura National Trust Homestead museum a poster about the construction of the Port Augusta to Albany telegraph in 1877 which linked Adelaide and Perth. .
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