Weipa Town
| Weipa Town | |
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 Australia
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 Queensland
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| Administrative headquarters: | Rocky Point |
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| Area : | 10.8 km² |
| Residents : | 3,905 (2016) |
| Population density : | 362 inhabitants per km² |
Coordinates: 12 ° 37 ′ S , 141 ° 52 ′ E
 
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Weipa Town in Queensland |
Weipa Town is a local administrative area (LGA) in the Australian state of Queensland . The area is 10.8 km² and has about 3900 inhabitants.
geography
Weipa is located on the west side of the Cape York Peninsula in the north of the state about 2000 km northwest of the capital Brisbane and about 630 km northwest of Cairns .
The administrative headquarters of the LGA is located in the Rocky Point district, where almost 1960 residents live. Other neighborhoods include Evans Landing, Nanum, Trunding and Weipa Airport.
history
The Weipa Mission was founded by the Presbyters in 1898 32 km southwest of the mouth of the Embley River on Spring Creek. In 1932 she moved to the coast in Albatross Bay at Jessica Point between Embley and Mission River. Aborigines from this Cape York region lived in the mission and also went hunting in the hinterland. In the mid-1950s, large deposits of bauxite were discovered in the lands of the indigenous peoples, which were developed and exploited from 1962 by a consortium of Consolidated Zinc and the English Rio Tinto Zinc. For the areas north of the Mission River in Andoom and west of the Mission, a mine workers' settlement was built on the north side of the headland between the two rivers. The mission itself moved to the south side and was named Weipa South. Today there is the Aboriginal settlement Mission River , which belongs to the Napranum Shire . The workers' settlement with the processing plants, train station, shipyard and an outside airfield became an independent township which is run by the residents or the mining company in local self-administration. The mining areas were added to the Cook Shire .
administration
The Weipa Town Authority is provided by the mining company Rio Tinto Alcan , which operates the surrounding bauxite mines that are not part of the town. Weipa is the only LGA in Queensland that has town status and does not have an elected administration.
swell
- ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Weipa (T) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Rocky Point (Weipa - Qld) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
Web links
- Official site of the Weipa Town Authority (English)
- Queensland Places: Weipa (English)