Wickham (Western Australia)

Wickham
Place view
State :  Australia State : Western Australia Founded : 1970
Coordinates : 20 ° 41 ′  S , 117 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 20 ° 41 ′  S , 117 ° 8 ′  E
Residents : 1,572 (2016)
Time zone : AWST (UTC + 8) Postal code : 6720 LGA : Karratha City
Wickham

Wickham is an Australian town located 1,572 kilometers north of Perth , 33 kilometers from Karratha and 13 kilometers north of Roebourne in the West Australian Pilbara region .

The city's first buildings were built in 1970 on the Cliffs Robe River for workers at the Pannawonica iron ore mine , located on Cape Lambert and owned by the Rio Tinto Group . The extracted iron ore is shipped from Port Walcott . Most of the houses and buildings in the village are also owned by Rio Tinto.

Wickham was originally self-governing, but local government was incorporated into the City of Karratha in 1980 when a public building was built in the village .

Sons and Daughters of Wickham

• Travis Denney (* 1976), badminton player
• Amber Bradley (born 1980), rower

Web links

• City of Karratha website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Wickham (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.