Dampier

Dampier, town and port, northwestern Western Australia, on King Bay, an inlet of the Indian Ocean. Beginning in 1965, the town and port were constructed by the Hamersley Iron company to handle iron ore mined at Mount Tom Price (about 180 miles [290 km] south) and Paraburdoo in the Hamersley Range. Dampier lies just west of Roebourne, an old pearling port (1866) that served the Pilbara goldfield from 1888 until 1912, when a rail line...