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
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.
Albatross Bay is a bay on the eastern shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia.
Looking from Mission River out to Albatross Bay, 2020