Between 1939 and 1952 National Oil Proprietary Limited extracted oil from shale at their Glen Davis works in the Capertee Valley approximately 120 miles west of Sydney. The plant was built using much equipment salvaged from the closed Newnes shale oil works nearby.
Although regarded as strategic for Australia's wartime oil supply, the venture was plagued by technical, financial and political difficulties, and anticipated production was never fully realised. Viability of the shale mine and oil works were always questionable and they closed after a short and troubled life.
coordinates : 33°07'20.88"S 150°17'57.00"E
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The abandoned Corringie Settlement is at Wilson's Patch, 65km north of the remote mining town of Leonora. Half way between Leonora & Leinster in the Gold Fields Region of outback Western Australia, Australia.
In the mid-1980s Victor and Joan Isaacs moved to Isaacs' birthplace at Wilson's Patch, a bleak and stony terrain 80km north of the remote mining town of Leonora. The couple wanted to set up an alcohol-free settlement in which their nine children, their families and others could live isolated from the destructive influences of city life.
They took with them a few elderly relatives. Then they salvaged building materials from abandoned mining sites and rubbish dumps and built huts. Running water and telephone were connected in 1990.
The camp seems to have been alive an active for years, I then lose track of what happened, and how I finally was abandoned probably around the year 2000.
Detail of one of the Buckminster Fuller-designed geodesic domes.
I Want To Thank Max Jefferies for providing me with his great pictures and information.
coordinates : 28°19'14.36"S 121°09'55.63"E
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The MV Pasha Bulker is a Panamax bulk carrier of 76,741 metric tons of deadweight perated by the Lauritzen Bulkers Shipping company and owned by Japanese Disponent Owners. While waiting in the open ocean outside the harbour to load coal the Pasha Bulker ran aground during a major storm on 8 June 2007 on Nobbys Beach in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It was refloated and moved to a safe location offshore on 2 July 2007, before being towed to Japan for major repairs on 26 July 2007.
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