Pilbara
Proper noun
Meaning
the Pilbara
An arid, sparsely populated region in northern Western Australia.
Phrases with the word
Examples
A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder over the death of a young woman who was found in a wheelie bin in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
A tropical low off the Kimberley coast in Western Australia state was forecast to develop into a category three cyclone that could hit the Pilbara region, Australia's iron ore producing heartland, on Saturday.
Attorney-General John Quigley late yesterday told Parliament that the Queensland billionaire was seeking billions of dollars in damages related his Pilbara iron ore interests.
Flood warnings are also in place for Western Australia’s De Grey River catchment after a gusty tropical low dumped heavy rain from the Pilbara to the border with South Australia.
Huge clean energy projects, such as the Asian Renewable Energy Hub in the Pilbara, Western Australia, are set to produce gigawatts of electricity over vast expanses of land in the near future.
In the waters off the Pilbara Coast, in Western Australia, Woodside, Chevron, BHP and Shell are planning to open up new gasfields connected to a processing plant known as the Burrup Hub.