Geoffs Life After Work !

2 Woomera Rocket Test Base in the 60/70s

Woomera Once a secret town closed to the outside world This place is like a ghost town! Lots of Housing/flats BUT all empty The British & Australians tested rockets here until the 80s NASA got involved for a while & the place was bustling with people (around 7000) even got its own cinema(abandoned) When the testing finished the population has dwindled to around 200 & is now a ghostly tourist town Its very possible the housing could be utilised in the near future for immigrants Further up the road os Roxby Downs (The town was purpose built to service the Olympic Dam mine which contains one of the largest known ore bodies in the world today & It has one of the highest birth rates in Australia possibly NO TV out there? )we decided to give it a miss .The Woomera Prohibited Area also contained the Emu and Maralinga atomic test sites(within 270000 sq Kms area)

October 7, 2010 - Posted by Luxxys Lovely Lived Life | Uncategorized