City Plaza, Hummock Hill in the background

Location of Whyalla in South Australia (red)

Whyalla (33°02′S 137°34′E) is a city and port located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula opposite Port Pirie in South Australia. Population (2001) 24,100. Whyalla_South_Australia_City_Plaza, Hummock Hill in the background. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x931, 51 KB) Shows location of w: , South Australia marked in red in the Australian state of w:South Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x931, 51 KB) Shows location of w: , South Australia marked in red in the Australian state of w:South Australia. ... Satellite photo of the Eyre Peninsula bushfires, taken on January 11 2005 Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. ... Port Pirie is a city located in South Australia, Australia, with a population of 15,200. ... Motto: United for the Common Wealth Nickname: Festival State Other Australian states and territories Capital Adelaide Government Governor Premier Const. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

It was founded as Hummock Hill in 1901 by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Ltd. (BHP) as the end of a tramway bringing iron ore from the Middleback Ranges to be used in the lead smelters at Port Pirie as flux. A jetty was built to transfer the ore. The settlement consisted of small cottages and tents clustered around the base of the hill. The arid environment and lack of natural fresh water resources made it necessary to import water in barges from Port Pirie. 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ... This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ... General Name, Symbol, Number lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 6, p Appearance bluish white Atomic mass 207. ...

On 16 April 1920 the town was proclaimed as Whyalla. The ore conveyor on the jetty was improved and ore began to be shipped to the newly built Newcastle, New South Wales steelworks. The town grew slowly until 1938. April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Looking towards the baths, from the Bogey Hole Newcastle is Australias sixth largest city and the second largest in the state of New South Wales. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The BHP Indenture Act was proclaimed in 1937 and provided the impetus for the construction of a blast furnace and harbour. In 1939 the blast furnace and harbour began to be constructed and a commitment for a pipeline from the Murray River was made. A shipyard was built to provide ships for the Royal Australian Navy. The population began rising dramatically and many new facilities, including a hospital and abbatoirs, were built. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Blast furnace diagram A blast furnace is a type of furnace for smelting whereby the combustion material and ore are supplied with air from the bottom of the chamber such that the chemical reaction does not take place only at the surface. ... // Events January-March January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. ... A branch of the Murray in its middle reaches, near Howlong, New South Wales The Murray River, or River Murray, is Australias second-longest river in its own right (the longest being its tributary the Darling). ... Small shipyard in Klaksvík (Faroe Islands), reparing fishing vessels Dockyards and shipyards are places which repair and build ships. ... The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. ...

In 1941 the first ship from the new shipyard, HMAS Whyalla, was launched and the blast furnace became operational. By 1943 the population was more than 5,000. On 31 March the Murray River pipeline from Morgan became operational. In 1945 the city came under combined company and public administration and the shipyard began producing commercial ships. In 1948 displaced persons began arriving from Europe. For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named for the city of Whyalla, South Australia. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... Morgan is a town in South Australia on the right bank of the Murray River, just downstream of where it turns from flowing roughly westwards to roughly southwards. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Power lines leading to a trash dump hover just overhead in El Carpio, a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, covering around 10,790,000 km² (4,170,000 sq mi) or 2. ...

In 1958 the Company decided to build an integrated steelworks at Whyalla. They were completed in 1965. In the following year salt began to be harvested and coke ovens were built. The population grew extremely rapidly, and the South Australian housing trust was building 500 houses a year to cope with the demand. Planning for a city of 100,000 was done by the Department of Lands. A second pipeline from Morgan was built to cope with the demand. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... In chemistry, salt is a term used for ionic compounds composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ... Coke is a solid carbonaceous residue derived from low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal from which the volatile constituents (including water, coal-gas and coal-tar) are driven off by baking in an airless oven at temperatures as high as 1,000 degrees Celsius so that the fixed carbon and...

In 1970 the city adopted full local government status. The shipbuilding slump resulted in the closing of the shipyards, which were at the time the largest in Australia, in 1978. From a peak population of 33,000 in 1976, the population dropped rapidly. Since then the city has gone through a slump. Whyalla has experienced a net migration loss since 1981, reflecting the continuing decline in the BHP iron and steel industry. The 2001 census population of 22,836 meant that for the first time in more than 40 years Mount Gambier, with a population of 23,282, is South Australia's second largest city. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Mount Gambier is a city of 23,282 people 2001 census which is, after Adelaide, the largest population centre in South Australia, it was named for Admiral James Gambier. ...

The BHP long products division was divested in 2000 to form OneSteel. The Whyalla steelworks is the sole producer of rail and steel sleepers in Australia. In finance and economics, divestment or divestiture is the reduction of some kind of asset, for either financial or social goals. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Sleeper has a number of different meanings, usually connected to sleep in varying degrees of literalness: Sleeper is a Woody Allen movie. ...

HMAS Whyalla was landlocked as a tourist attraction in 1987. In the late 1990s the spectacular annual migration of the Australian Giant Cuttlefish Sepia apama to the reef areas north of Whyalla around Black Point and Point Lowly became recognised by international divers. The Whyalla Conservation Park provides an example of the natural semi-arid environment. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 1990s refers to the years 1990 to 1999; the last decade of the 20th Century, but in an economical sense The Nineties is often considered to span from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to the September 11 attacks in 2001. ... The Australian Giant Cuttlefish is the worlds largest cuttlefish species, growing up to 1. ... Families Sepiadariidae Sepiidae Cuttlefish are animals of the order Sepiida, and are marine cephalopods, small relatives of squids and nautilus. ...

Whyalla is also home to the regional campus of the University of South Australia. University of South Australia The University of South Australia (commonly known as UniSA) was formed in 1991 when the South Australian Government merged the South Australian Institute of Technology and the South Australian Colleges of Advanced Education through the University of South Australia Act 1991. ...

Whyalla is in the City of Whyalla local government area (along with some of the sparsely inhabited areas around it), the state electorate of Giles and the federal Division of Grey. Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of South Australia. ... Australian House of Representatives chamber Entrance to the House of Representatives The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia. ... The Division of Grey is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. ...

External links

• Whyalla City Council's tourist information site
• Terraserver.com satellite image of Whyalla
• maps.google.com satellite image of Whyalla

Whyalla is home to up and coming soccer player Josh Marinelli