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Karratha is a town adjoining the port of Dampier in the Pilbara region of Western Australia which was developed from the 1960s 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 North West Shelf Venture. It has 9 main suburbs: Karratha Town Centre, Bulgarra, Pegs Creek, Millars Well, Nickol, Nickol West, Baynton, Baynton West, Tambrey and one industrial area, and a population of 11,728 (in 2006).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatha
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Coordinates: 20°44'20"S 116°49'52"E
- Dampier, Western Australia 17 km
- South Hedland 187 km
- Port Hedland 188 km
- Onslow 206 km
- Broome 643 km
- Derby 811 km
- Karratha Industrial Estate 5.2 km
- Karratha Airport 6.8 km
- Dampier Salt Works 10 km
- Parker Point Terminal (Dampier Port) 15 km
- Dampier Archipelago 25 km
- Dixon Island 27 km
- Cape Lambert port B 38 km
- Lake Poongkaliyarra 42 km
- Depuch Island 94 km
- Hamersley Range 131 km