Wittenoom
An asbestos ridden ghost town located in the far North of Western Australia. The song 'Blue Sky Mine' - written by Australian band Midnight Oil - is named after the Blue Asbestos that was mined near the town and explores the reluctance of the mining companies to compensate their employees. Despite the fact that the mining companies knew asbestos was carcinogenic.
A few people still live in Wittenoom doing god knows what. Why anyone would want to live there is beyond what I can comprehend as the town has been erased from most maps, the roads leading into the town have been blocked and there's no running water or electricity beyond what the locals can produce.
There's still so much asbestos there that you can literally just bend down and pick some up from off the dirt road.
DO NOT GO TO WITTENOOM UNDER ANY CURCUMSTANCES!! It is truly the worst town in Australia. (Meekatharra didn't even come close XD)
A few people still live in Wittenoom doing god knows what. Why anyone would want to live there is beyond what I can comprehend as the town has been erased from most maps, the roads leading into the town have been blocked and there's no running water or electricity beyond what the locals can produce.
There's still so much asbestos there that you can literally just bend down and pick some up from off the dirt road.
DO NOT GO TO WITTENOOM UNDER ANY CURCUMSTANCES!! It is truly the worst town in Australia. (Meekatharra didn't even come close XD)
"My Dad grew up in Wittenoom... He used to play in a sand pit full of asbestos powder when was a few years old... and his older brother and his friends would run around, kicking up blue clouds of asbestos dust. He died of asbestosis a few years ago..." An Old guy I was talking to in Perth
"But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
there'll be food on the table tonnight
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
There'll be pay in your pocket tonnight" - Chorus of Blue Sky Mine
"But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
there'll be food on the table tonnight
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
There'll be pay in your pocket tonnight" - Chorus of Blue Sky Mine
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