Hamersley Range - Citizendia

The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara, Western Australia. For the Fly Genus, see Pilbara (fly. The Pilbara is a Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. The range runs from the Fortescue River in the northeast, 460km south. The range contains Western Australia's highest point, Mount Meharry, which reaches approximately 1,249 m AHD. Mount Meharry is the highest mountain in Western Australia. It is located within the southeastern part of Karijini National Park of the Pilbara region The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The Australian Height Datum is a Geodetic datum for Altitude measurement in Australia. There are many extensively-eroded gorges, such as Wittenoom Gorge. Wittenoom is a town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia about 1106 kilometres (687 mi north-northeast of Perth.

Karijini National Park (formerly Hamersley National Park), one of Australia's largest National Parks, is centred in the range. Karijini National Park is a National Park centred in the Hamersley Ranges of the Pilbara region in northwestern Western Australia ( Australia A national park is a reserve of land usually declared and owned by a national Government, protected from most Human development and pollution

The range contains large deposits of iron ore, the source of a large amount of Australia's iron. Western Australia's major iron producers have mines, communities and railways that occur along the range.

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