The Whyalla Steelworks is a fully integrated steelworks and the only manufacturer of rail in Australia. It produces 75% of all structural steel in Australia. Iron ore is mined in the Middleback Range
The Whyalla Steelworks c. 2009
HMAS Whyalla was built at the BHP shipyards and now sits ashore adjacent to the Whyalla Visitors Centre
Morgan on the Murray River: the majority of the steelworks' water is pumped to Whyalla from here
The rooftops of Whyalla are often pink with dust from the Whyalla Steelworks
Morgan is a town in South Australia on the right bank of the Murray River, just downstream of where it turns from flowing roughly westwards to roughly southwards. It is about 161 kilometres north east