Whyalla

[wahy-al-uh, hwahy-]

noun

1. a city in South Australia.

Whyalla

/ waɪˈælə /

noun

1. a port in S South Australia, on Spencer Gulf: iron and steel and shipbuilding industries. Pop: 21 271 (2001)

Example Sentences

Court filings identify one of the distributors as being located in Whyalla Stuart, Australia, a tiny town on the country’s southern coast.

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But inhabitants of the small Australian steel town of Whyalla tipped scientists off in the late 1990s that cuttlefish were swarming on the coast.

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In Australia, GFG owns the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia, and the nearby iron ore mines which feed it.

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The London branch of Citibank lodged an application on Tuesday to wind up OneSteel Manufacturing, which includes the Whyalla steel plant in South Australia, and Tahmoor Coal, which includes a coal mine in New South Wales, according to the court.

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About 5,000 people work for GFG Group’s British Steel and about 1,000 are directly employed by the South Australian mill, but thousands more are dependent on it either as contractors or suppliers and it underpins the economy of the entire town of Whyalla.

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