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	Walkabout - Weipa
		Today Weipa is a mining town where bauxite is mined, washed, graded and loaded for shipment to the aluminium processing plant at Gladstone.
		Weipa's secondary production facilities include a calcination plant which was opened in 1970 and a kaolin plant which was opened in 1986.
		To the south of the town, on the banks of the Embley, Hey, Pine and Mission Rivers are the strange phenomenom known as the Weipa Shell Mounds.
	www.walkabout.com.au /smh/locations/QLDWeipa.shtml (513 words)

	Weipa, Queensland, Pictures
		Weipa, town in northeastern Australia, in the northern part of the state of Queensland, on the western coast of Cape York Peninsula.
		Weipa is located at the mouths of the Hey, Embley, and Mission rivers on Albatross Bay in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Weipa is mostly a residential community for workers in the mining companies.
	www.greatestcities.com /Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Weipa_town.html (213 words)

	Weipa, Queensland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Weipa (12°36′S 141°58′E), a town on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia, is a mining town of approximately 3,000 people that exists because of the enormous bauxite deposits along the coast.
		Weipa is just south of Duyfken Point, a location now agreed to be one of the first recorded points of European contact with the Australian continent by the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon on his ship the Duyfken in 1606.
		Weipa began as a Presbyterian Aboriginal mission outpost in 1898.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weipa (360 words)

	Weipa
		Weipa is a mining town built by Comalco to house its employees and their families, government workers and support people for its Bauxite and Kaolin operations.
		Fishing: Weipa is great for the fishing enthusiast, try your luck at fishing for Barramundi, King Salmon and Mangrove Jack in the estuaries in Albatross Bay and Blue Salmon on the beaches.
		Industrial: Weipa was a planned mining town producing over 11 million tonnes of beneficiated bauxite annually.
	www.about-australia.com /queensland/tropical-north/destinations/weipa (749 words)

	International Crocodile Rescue - The Crocodile Hunter - Australia Zoo
		The cooperative team from the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Australia Zoo and The University of Queensland has expanded on the world-first ‘Crocs in Space’ research program, tracking the movement patterns of large estuarine crocodiles using satellite telemetry, by conducting another experiment to determine the movement patterns of crocodiles resident around urban areas.
		Weipa, situated on the western side of Cape York Peninsula, is located on Albatross Bay around the mouths of the Pine, Mission, Embley and Hey Rivers.
		Weipa supports a resident population of people who work in the large bauxite mine run by Comalco, or who make their living running support businesses that service the mine or the other functions of the town.
	www.crocodilerescue.com /weipa_2004/crocs_in_space.html (3068 words)

	AusEmade: Weipa Information and Attractions, Queensland (QLD), Australia
		The town is managed by the Weipa Town Office under a special act of the Queensland Parliament which gives the town the status of a Special Bauxite Mining Lease and hands control to Comalco Aluminium.
		Weipa has a local swimming pool at Rocky Point, and two man made lakes, Patricia and McLeod which are used for swimming and sailing.
		10km from Weipa Township), Aurukun, Mapoon, Injinoo, and New Mapoon.
	www.ausemade.com.au /qld/destination/w/weipa-attractions.htm (630 words)

	Weipa Fishing Adventures
		Weipa is recognised internationally as a destination of choice for 3 main reasons.
		Weipa, is a small community and it's fair to say the number of locals who fish has practically no impact on the ecosystem and there is no netting in the major systems.
		The Weipa area is huge and largely protected from professional fisherman, therefore there is not high degree of pressure on the system which means there are plenty of virgin fish for you to catch
	www.weipafishingadventures.com.au /secrets.html (2267 words)

	Emergency Services Cadets : Napranum/Weipa
		Weipa, being situated on beautiful Cape York Peninsula, is a bauxite mining town steeped in history.
		Weipa Cadet group has 7 adult leaders, none of whom have strong backgrounds in any of the Emergency Services.
		Weipa Cadets supported over 400 school children by explaining about the Cadet program and Emergency Services in general more than 450 SES balloons were handed out to the children over the two day period.
	www.emergency.qld.gov.au /cadets/groups/farnorthern/napranum_weipa.asp (307 words)

	Fishing Weipa - Weipa Camping Caravan Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Weipa has earned the reputation of being amongst the best fishing regions in Queensland, Australia.
		Fishing is generally so good here that Weipa has become known as the "Sportfishing Capital of Queensland".
		Cold storage of your catch is available at the Weipa Camping Ground which also has supplies of ice and bait - boat hire and boat charters can also be arranged by the Weipa Camping Ground staff.
	www.campweipa.com /fishing.htm (209 words)

	StrikeZone - Home
		Weipa is a remote fishing destination on Cape York, Australia.
		Weipa is only a 1 hour flight from Cairns.
		A fishing holiday in Weipa can be a holiday of a lifetime or like most of our clients it can become a regular holiday destination.
	www.strikezonesportsfish.com.au (522 words)

	StrikeZone - About Weipa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Weipa is a remote community located in Albatross Bay on the western coast of Cape York, Australia.
		Weipa's first settlement were missionaries who arrived in Weipa in 1890.
		Weipa locals like to make their own entertainment; fishing, hunting and camping would be most popular.Albatross Bay has four major river systems, miles of untouched beaches and coastal reefs all within close vicinity of the Weipa town-ship.
	www.strikezonesportsfish.com.au /weipa.htm (563 words)

	Australian Museum Collections - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island - Sharing Knowledge
		Roth was a Queensland doctor and was government Protector of Aborigines from 1898 until 1905.
		Kate Khan's catalogue, the fourth volume of which was published in 2004, is specifically for distribution among the Aboriginal communities of North Queensland and Cape York.
		Thelma Coconut, an elder of the Napranum community of the Weipa region in North Queensland, read the first two parts of the catalogue and discovered that Roth had collected objects from her country.
	www.amonline.net.au /collections/aboriginal/sharing.htm (441 words)

	Cape York Fly fishing in Weipa - Guided fly fishing trips - Sports Fishing Adventure Australia
		Weipa is situated on the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria and about two-thirds of the way up the western shore of Cape York.
		Come to Weipa and catch fish such as; Queenfish, GT's, Barramundi, Giant Herring, Golden Trevally, Permit, Milkfish, Mackerel, Longtail Tuna and many more fish species.
		Get together with a few of your mates and embark on the fishing adventure of a life time and let us show you how good the Cape can be.
	www.weipaflyfish.com.au (377 words)

	Weipa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The area was one of the first in Australia to be described by Europeans: Willem Janz encountered “savage, cruel fls” here in 1606, a report later reiterated by Jan Carstensz who found nothing of interest and sailed off to chart the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Apart from a mission built at Mappoon in the nineteenth century, little changed until aluminium ore was first mined in the 1950s and Comalco built the town and began mining.
		All the traffic in Weipa gives way to the gargantuan mine vehicles and stays out of the restricted areas.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/queensland/weipa.asp (308 words)

	Weipa - Queensland - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		The rugged Jura country is not where you'd expect to find the best restaurant in France, Alice Cairns writes.
		Queensland’s most popular corner has more going for it than sunshine.
		Some may regard her a masochist, but Maria Visconti can't get the adventure bug out of her system.
	www.smh.com.au /news/queensland/weipa/2005/02/17/1108500203810.html (594 words)

	Welcome To The Official Mark O'shea Website
		Together they venture to Weipa in Far North Queensland, from where they can make nocturnal forays out into the Hay River estuary to net seasnakes including the Beaked seasnake, Enhydrina schistosa, the species currently used for antivenom production but a species which fares extremely badly in captivity, and aggressive Hardwicke’s seasnake, Lapemis hardwickei.
		From Queensland, Mark and Brian travel to Broome in Western Australia to board the Kimberley Quest on which they journey 36 hours north-westwards to the Hibernia and Ashmore Reefs, located closer to Indonesia than Australia.
		Location: Weipa in Far North Queensland, location for lanterning for seasnakes.
	www.markoshea.tv /series2/series02-09.html (362 words)

	Infrared Microspectroscopy of Bauxitic Pisoliths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bauxite ore in the deposit at Weipa, Queensland, Australia occurs aspisoliths which are small, approximately spherical, pebbles withdiameters in the range 0.5-2 cm.
		The distribution of various mineralspecies within the pisoliths has been determined by the use ofreflectance infrared microspectroscopy of a large suite of pisolithsobtained from different parts of the Weipa orebody.
		Principalcomponents analysis of the mineral distribution data allowed the suiteof pisoliths to be subdivided into groups with similar mineralization.
	www.s-a-s.org /journal/95/asv49n11/ASv49n11_sp8.html (220 words)

	Recent News \| Pacific Marine Group : Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
		Up to 20 dive- and support-crew are involved in the project, and up to 950 dives and 2000 in-water hours have been recorded per year.
		In 2001 and 2002 Pacific Marine Group again returned to Weipa to continue upgrading and replacement of CP system components.
		During September 2004, Pacific Marine Group once again mobilised to Weipa to continue with underwater inspections and repairs on the Mission River Bridge.
	www.pacificmarinegroup.com.au /news.php (1209 words)

	Crash of a B-17E Flying Fortress, about 25 miles north west of Weipa, Queensland on 18 September 1942
		In the late afternoon of 17 September 1942, eight B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 93rd Bombardment Squadron of the 19th Bombardment Group based at Mareeba airfield in north Queensland, departed Seven Mile airfield at Port Moresby to bomb Rabaul.
		The rest of the crew regrouped on the ground and eventually met up with some local aboriginals who arranged for them to be transported by boat to Weipa.
		A search party for Meenaugh was organised by Police Superintendent L.A. Cane of the Mapoon Aboriginal Mission which was located near the wreckage of the B-17.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/ozcrashes/qld168.htm (337 words)

	ARTS: Far North Queensland Students Ready to Rock Weipa
		The involvement with others from different parts of Queensland will help the children to socialise and explore a different world outside of the island.
		In Weipa, Pay School is joining forces with the Croc Festival® and will be using the Croc Festival® stage to do a live Play School show.
		The festival is supported by the Queensland Government’s Health and Education departments, Weipa Town Office, Comalco, as well as the Federal Government, corporate and philanthropic organizations.
	www.abc.net.au /message/news/stories/s1683402.htm (1180 words)

	Weipa, Queensland - Travelmate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Close to the Cape York spot where the Dutch trader Willem Janz made the first recorded European landfall on the Australian mainland in 1606, Weipa is the end of the line for travellers heading north on the Peninsular Development Road.
		A town built to support the mining of Comalco’s massive bauxite deposits, Weipa is a pleasant community flanking the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria and attracts both adventurers and keen fisherman.
		A replica of the Janz's tiny ship, Duyfken, spent much of 2000 and 2001 cruising the waters of Queensland before setting off on a long voyage 'home' to Holland.
	www.needitnow.com.au /Places/Places.asp?TownId=1381 (207 words)

	Tescorp ENZED - Townsville Cairns Charters Towers and Weipa, North Queensland.
		Tescorp ENZED - Townsville Cairns Charters Towers and Weipa, North Queensland.
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		Situated in Cairns and Weipa ENZED offers a mobile service for replacement hose and fittings, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
	www.tescorp.com.au /enzed.html (132 words)

	List of Australian Air Force installations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAAF Area Combined Headquarters, North-Eastern area, Townsville, Queensland.
		RAAF Marine Section Thursday Island, Thursday Island, Queensland.
		Redland Bay Flying Boat Base, Redland Bay, near Brisbane, Queensland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Australian_air_force_bases (707 words)

	Far North Queensland Regional Swimming Association
		Since then the Region has grown to 18 clubs and spans an area in Queensland from Tully in the South, to Weipa and Cooktown in the North.
		During the past years, our organization has embarked on a challenging review of its systems and activities and is currently using electronic nominations for Carnival program formats within its swimming calendar.
		FNQ Regional Swimming is a progressive and innovative group of enthusiastic Clubs determined to work through its parent organization, Queensland Swimming, with an eye always on improving the lot of it's swimming members!
	www.fnqswimming.asn.au (223 words)

	Weipa, Cooktown & Cape York Queensland Australia
		The mining town of Weipa, the "Oasis in the wilderness" is known as the Barramundi capital of Queensland.
		This small but vibrant town, situated on the west-coast of the Cape, some 160kms from the tip and only one and a half hour’s flight from Cairns, offers all the conveniences of modern living and is considered the jump off point to explore the remote wilderness of the western Cape York.
		Road conditions and fuel:Travelling to Weipa the road surface is gravel but good - check road conditions with RACQ before departure.
	www.totaltravel.com.au /travel/qld/tropicalqld/cooktown-cape-york/guide/weipa (389 words)

	Bintulu Alumina project may take off next year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The deep-water port will handle the imports of bauxite shipped from Comalco mine in Weipa, Queensland, Australia and the export of alumina.
		Mr Chiew continued that if the Australians knew the Alumina Refinery was bad for them, then Malaysians must be smart enough to learn from them and prevent the people from becoming victims of their products.
		The Australian alumina refinery plant was supposed to be built in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, where the raw material bauxide would be supplied from the mine at Weipa in Queensland, and the gas supply piped in from Papua New Guinea.
	www.rengah.c2o.org /assets/xml/de0047t.xml (572 words)

	Weipa travel guide - Wikitravel
		Oceania : Australasia : Australia : Queensland : Cape York Peninsula : Weipa
		Weipa is a town in the Cape York Peninsula region of Queensland, Australia.
		This article is still a stub and needs your attention.
	wikitravel.org /en/Weipa (78 words)

	Queensland Government: Welcome to the Smart State
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		Queensland Government at the Ekka 10- 19 August 2006
		Photos courtesy of Woodford Folk Festival, artists pictured: Waiting for Guinness with special guest Victor Valdez, Four Play String Quartet, The John Butler Trio, Leo, Lior, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill.
	www.qld.gov.au (77 words)

	Shipping to Weipa, Australia, Queensland
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	www.homeshipping.com /shipping-to/Weipa.asp (100 words)

	Alcan Inc. - Free Market News Network
		Brisbane, Australia — Alcan today announced that the Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water has given approval for mining to commence on its Ely bauxite deposit near Weipa, on Queensland’s Western Cape York Peninsula.
		In exchange, bauxite from Comalco’s Weipa bauxite deposit is supplied to Alcan for refining by Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) in Gladstone.
		Alcan’s interests include the Gove alumina refinery in the Northern Territory (100 percent ownership), Queensland Alumina Limited (41.4 percent), the Tomago aluminium smelter in New South Wales (51.5 percent) and bauxite reserves in the Northern Territory and North Queensland.
	www.freemarketnews.com /Press-Release.asp?nid=9405 (674 words)

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