East Intercourse Island, Wetern Australia - Control Tower - postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  View of the Control Tower on East Intercourse Island, Dampier, Western Australia 
• Publisher: Emu Souvenirs, Leederville, WA
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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East Intercourse Island is an uninhabited island in the Dampier Archipelago, in the Pilbara, Western Australia. It is around 250 hectares in size.[1]

The island is a major iron ore loading port owned and operated by Pilbara Iron, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium (RTIT).[2]

The lay-by berth can be considered a normal berth without a jetty structure that allows up to 50 vessels per year to berth without having to wait for a tidal vessel to sail.[3]

In 1984, the MV Shinho Maru loaded at East Intercourse Island with the first cargo greater than 200,000 tonnes to be dispatched from any Australian port.[4]

On 4 June 2011, the port was the scene of the workplace death of Irish scaffolder Shaun McBride.[5] He fell into the port and drowned after his work platform collapsed.[6]

The Dampier Archipelago is a group of 42 islands near the town of Dampier in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

The archipelago is also made up of reefs, shoals, channels and straits and is the traditional home of five Aboriginal language groups. It was formed 7000 years ago when rising sea levels flooded what were once coastal plains. The underlying rocks are among the oldest on earth, formed in the Archaean period more than 2400 million years ago.

It is named after William Dampier, an English buccaneer and explorer who visited in 1699. Dampier named one of the islands Rosemary Island.

Despite being a region through which considerable shipping and industrial activity occurs, the archipelago has considerable marine resources.[1]