RAAF Base Scherger
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RAAF Base Scherger is a Royal Australian Air Force military air base located approximately 26 km east of Weipa on the western side of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. One of three bare ba
A U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J Hercules positions for takeoff during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023
A gate to RAAF Base Scherger, seen in 2010
Weipa
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Weipa is a coastal mining town in the local government area of Weipa Town in Queensland. It is one of the largest towns on the Cape York Peninsula. It exists because of the enormous bauxite deposits a
RAAF Base Scherger
…RAAF Base Scherger (ICAO: YBSG) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base located approximately 26 km (16 mi) east of Weipa on the western side of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. One of three bare bases in a chain of bases across Australia's top end, the base…
Weipa
Bauxite section on kaolinitic sandstone, 1969
Mining equipment at the Comalco (now Rio Tinto Aluminium) bauxite mine; Weipa, 1995
Former Weipa Immigrant Detention Centre, 2010. It closed in 2014.