Aboriginal whyalla

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Send to: is required Error: This is required Error: Not a valid value. You are here: Home News Media releases news Aboriginal girls in Whyalla shoot for the stars Aboriginal girls in Whyalla shoot for the stars. Media releases. Share this Article. Stay informed. The Whyalla area itself was visited by semi-nomadic tribes of Malkaripangala people — a subdivision of the Barngarla Aboriginal group, who were culturally linked to the Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens tribes.

One of their most significant mythological stories is The Moon and Seven Sisters the Pleiades star constellation. Barngarla people wore cloaks made form kangaroo skin, with fur turned inside during winter.

In summer, they smeared their bodies with fat and ochre. They hunted both land and marine animals; however they never included oysters and shellfish in their diet. The Malkaripangala virtually disappeared. The city itself started as a tiny work camp on the shore at the foot of Hummock Hill, in BHP Co. The booming town was proclaimed a city in The steelworks started production in After construction of 66 ships, the Whyalla shipyards closed in On October 28, , the steelworks became an independent company: OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks, in the company name changed to Arrium Ltd.

Construction of the first Morgan to Whyalla pipeline commenced in and was completed in The pipe diameter varies from mm at Morgan to mm at Whyalla and is predominantly above ground on concrete supports.

The pipeline has a capacity of mega litres per year and is pumped through four pumping stations over a distance of kilometres.