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Cooke Point, Port Hedland in 1973 when the buildings were still owned by BHP

Aerial photograph of Cooke Point, Port Hedland in 1973 when the buildings were still owned by BHP. On 5 May 1991, the Australian Government requisitioned BHP’s defunct single men’s quarters to use as a detention centre for refugees fleeing civil conflict in Cambodia.

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State Library of Western Australia 271901PD

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