Pilbara Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
administrative region of Western Australia
About Pilbara
The Pilbara isremote– it covers an area of507,896km(196,100sqmi), which islargerthanCalifornia, but yet just shy of 62,000 inhabitants. To give another comparison on just how remote the region is, just the Shire of East Pilbara covers an area about the size ofJapan, but only has 11,000 inhabitants. Today, the region's biggest industry and draw is mining. The earth's original crust of 4+ billion years ago fractured and was re-absorbed deep within the planet through the forces of plate tectonics. But several primeval "cratons" persisted, one being Pilbara, with mineral-rich rocks around 3.5 billion years old. Australia became a separate continent 30 million years ago and was inhabited from 40-50,000 years ago, by which time the climate was already hot and arid. So it was only a blink of an e
Pilbara Travel Guide Sections
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