This website was designed by J.Lock at the Whyalla Campus of the University of South Australia.
Site created 14/6/2002 with the endorsement of the Iron Knob Progress Association inc.(IKPA).
Photographs and additional images provides by the author, IKPA and BHP archives.

Information for site obtained from "Looking Back, a History of Iron Knob" A.Casey & M.Cleasby
1984 Stationary Press, Whyalla, and "The Iron Knob Experience" B.Gill, V.Ernst,
D.Hayward, J.Groffen and B.Kotru.Freestart Services 1999

Information re' local Indigenous nations taken from "The Advertiser", P.46 Tuesday 15 Feb, 2000; "The Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains, An Aboriginal Studies Course for Secondary Students in Years 8-10" (Education Department of South Australia, 1989), and the Aboriginal map of Australia on the "Documenting a Democracy" site.

Outback Areas Trust Funding organisation for outback towns
Iron Knob Thomas Thornton's site
Whyalla Information page
Whyalla shopping hub Information page for shopping locally in Whyalla
Onesteel Official Site
BHP-Billiton Official Site
Project Magnet Information Page
CFS Country Fire Service
University of South Australia
CWA Country Women's Association
Aboriginal map of Australia ("Documenting a Democracy: Pathways")
Iron Knob (Wikipedia Entry)
BHP-Billiton (Wikipedia Entry)
Whyalla (Wikipedia Entry)
Eyre Penninsula (Wikipedia Entry)
Port Augusta (Wikipedia Entry)
Port Pirie (Wikipedia Entry)
Adelaide (Wikipedia Entry)
South Australia (Wikipedia Entry)
"The Advertiser"

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