Australia thread

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3/?

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Wittenoom is (was) a town in Western Australia that used to be home to a blue asbestos mine. Since the effects of prolonged exposure to blue asbestos were uncovered, the town has become a ghost town. The government has cut all electricity services and the like to the town, removed it from maps and signs and tried to force the few people left there to leave.

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>>17026707

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Wittenoom

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>>17026714

Wittenoom graveyard

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>>17026720

Wittenoom again

>>17026720
Creepy - it looks new or maintained.

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>>17026727

Wittenoom church

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>>17026729

That photo was taken at the end of 2010, from memory I think the grave was from sometime in the mid-2000s. There's still about four or so people who live there. I remember a few years ago a TV show here did a special on Wittenoom and sent a reporter out there all decked out in protective equipment like he was stepping into Chernobyl or something. After about five minutes some bloke who lived there came up to him riding a dirt bike and told him he looked like an idiot and drove off.

This is the China Wall near Halls Creek. It looks man-made and features in Aboriginal Dreamtime stories. It's made of quartz. It stretches from Halls Creek to the Bungle Bungles approximately 100km away.

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>>17026751

Not /x/ related but how grouse are saltwater crocodiles

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>>17026754

Also not /x/ related but here's a big fuck off termite mound

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>>17026758

This is Wycliffe Well on the Stuart Highway. It fancies itself as the UFO capital of Australia and inside there's a ton of stories about UFO eyewitness accounts across Australia.

Actually the most topkek place I've ever been in my life

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>>17026761

Wycliffe Well again featuring local Aboriginal gentleman

>>17026766
"godda smoke dere bruddah??"

do any of you lads have any good reading material on aboriginal dream time beliefs?

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>>17026742
>Aboriginal Dreamtime stories.
Can you tell us more about this? I heard it before but can't find much info on it.

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bumping for potential

>>17027902
It's when abbos Enter a deep dream like state and literally flips themselves upside down

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>>17027902

They're pretty much creation stories and legends as to how things are. They're also used for laws and the like. For example pic related is Chambers Pillar in the Northern Territory, about 150km south of Alice Springs, with Castle Rock in the distance. The local story about these are that the Pillar was originally an Aboriginal man and Castle Rock was his younger female cousin. From memory, the story goes that the man was fucking the young cousin and was expelled from the tribe. He took the cousin with him and they walked into the desert. They stopped for a break and because of what he had done, he turned into Chambers Pillar. The young cousin turned away from him in shame and she turned into Castle Rock (which now faces away from Chambers Pillar). So the moral of the story is: incest is bad and this is why there's a large sandstone pillar just sticking out of the desert with nothing else around it.