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Wittenoom, A Deadly Erased Asbestos Town.

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The Abandoned Blue Asbestos Mining Town Of Wittenoom - Travel Tramp

In the 1950s, Wittenoom’s streets were literally paved with asbestos. Today, almost 10 years since the town was declared too dangerous to live in, three people still refuse

Asbestos Mining Towns: Wittenoom, WA

Our reporter Raphael travels to Wittenoom and explores this Australian ghost town. Asbestos contamination made it uninhabitable, forever losing its place on

During 2009, we visited the abandonned ghost town of Wittenoom and the gorge. Our camp was at the mine settlement in Wittenoom Gorge. The town has been degaz

Wittenoom is an abandoned town in Outback Western Australia, a place where workers once mined the blue asbestos that occurs naturally in the nearby gorges, and tourists

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Asbestos mining operations at Wittenoom led to serious health problems for workers at the mine and residents in the town, as well as those transporting the r

The town of Wittenoom once lived and breathed blue asbestos It was built at the entrance of Wittenoom Gorge in 1946, to house workers who returned home coated in deadly

Tourists Won’t Stop Visiting Australia’s "Asbestos Town"

Of the estimated 20,000 people who lived and worked in Wittenoom during the life of the mines and town, more than 2,000 are believed to have so far died of asbestos-related diseases.

In its heyday, between 1930 and 1966, Wittenoom was home to around 20,000 people, most of whom worked in the now abandoned nearby mines, extracting deadly asbestos

Wittenoom, a town in Western Australia built in the late 1930s for blue asbestos mining. It’s killed many people from asbestos related cancers, and still continues to kill. The

The town was the deadliest place in Australia and was effectively erased from the map, its streets and buildings left to crumble under the relentless onslaught of the elements. The Deadly

Famous asbestos mining town now a genuinely dangerous ghost town. Wittenoom was officially removed from the Western Australian maps in 2007 and legislation was introduced to forcibly

Despite irrefutable scientific evidence calling out the dangers of asbestos, 2 million tons of the carcinogen are exported every year to the developing world

The Last Days of an Outback Town Where Every Breath Can Be Toxic

Settled amid the rough beauty of the outback in Western Australia, Wittenoom is a ghost town with a deadly history. It is around 900 miles away from Perth, though it couldn’t be further away from the city’s thriving metropolis.

Wittenoom’s roads were paved with asbestos tailings from the nearby mines and workers went home covered in a layer of deadly dust. Children played in the lethal mineral, and some even stuffed it in their mouths as a

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Despite irrefutable scientific evidence calling out the dangers of asbestos, 2 million tons of the carcinogen are exported every year to the developing world

Wittenoom wurde von Lang Hancock nach Frank Wittenoom, seinem Partner auf der nahe gelegenen Mulga Downs Station, benannt. Besiedelt wurde das Gebiet um Wittenoom

About 20,000 people lived in the town in its heyday from the 1930s to 1966, carting around deadly blue asbestos. More than 2,000 deaths have been linked to the mining activity

After decades of threats to do so, the WA Government finally closed the town of Wittenoom in 2006. It was declared a contaminated site and all government services were withdrawn. In

The Deadliest Place In Australia: Deleted Asbestos Town

The former asbestos mining town of Wittenoom has claimed many lives, but it is not enough to deter some who proudly call it home. Key points: Blue asbestos mining stopped

Thirty years ago Midnight Oil sang about the human and environmental devastation caused by asbestos mining in the remote Western Australian town of Wittenoom.

The town of Wittenoom, ruined by asbestos mining, will be wiped off the face of the earth. But first the government had to remove those who wanted to stay. Once a symbol of

Local officials issued a notice this week warning people against visiting Wittenoom, located 1,100km (680 miles) north of Perth. The former mining town is officially classified as a

Children would sit and play in piles of asbestos and of the 20,000 workers and residents, 2,000 have since died of asbestos related diseases. This number is likely to be higher however as

Located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Wittenoom was once home to a booming asbestos mine, famous for its blue crocidolite asbestos. Mining operations first began

While the state government is working to demolish Wittenoom, potentially deadly asbestos tailing are spread across the area, with no plan currently underway to remove them.

The decaying town is widely considered the most contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere, with more than 2000 deaths linked to the town’s blue asbestos mining operations

Once a symbol of economic prosperity, Wittenoom, Australia, is now a ghost town, polluted by decades of asbestos mining.