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Located 1476 km north of Perth on the Great Northern Highway, 192
km south-east of Port Hedland and 173 metres above sea level.
Marble
Bar sprung up as part of the gold rushes to the Pilbara in the late
1880s. The gold which had created a rush to the Kimberley's had all but
disappeared and the fossickers and prospectors headed south seeking the
elusive metal. Gold was actually discovered near Marble Bar in 1891 by
Francis Jenkins
The name
'Marble Bar' is synonymous with mining, isolation and, most importantly,
heat.
It is
known as 'the hottest town in Australia' a fact which is still recorded
by the Guinness Book of Records.
Marble Bar was named after a local deposit of mineral first thought
to be marble, but which later proved to be jasper (a highly coloured
cryptocrystalline variety of quartz).
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BALL Kathleen
1915-1993 |
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KRUGER O A 1911 |
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BEGGS Alexander
1916-1966 |
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LEABEATER
Robert 1906 |
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BUTLER Paul
1960 |
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LOCKYER Alfred
1903-1972 |
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CAHOON Len
1922-1981 |
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LOCKYER Evelyn
1942-1973 |
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CLUNING Judith
Anne 1940 |
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LOCKYER Florrie
1912-1987 |
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CONNOLLY Thomas
1903 |
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LOCKYER Henry
Michael 1940-1986 |
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DALY Bill 1945 |
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MALLETT George
1914-1989 |
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DARLINGTON J K 1943 |
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MARINONI
Vincenzo 1873-1915 |
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DE MARCHI Jan
1946 |
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MATTSSON E J
1962 |
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DOHERTY J R
(Jack) 1963 |
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MCCARTHY
Michael Mortimer 1909 |
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DRAFFIN Alice
1907 |
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MCPHEE Malana
Piper 1911-1977 |
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ECKERMAN Glen
Ashley 1975 |
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MILES James
(Jim) 1914 |
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ELEY Alfred
1903 |
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MORAN Bridget
1910 |
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FARBER Rita
Mabel 1957 |
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NIX Herbert W
1899 |
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GALLOP Douglas
Henry |
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O'NEIL Anne |
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GEAR Arthur
William (Paddy) 1915-1970 |
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OOSTERBAAN Arie
(Harry) 1915-1960 |
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GEAR Patrick
Brian 1969-1969 |
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OVENDEN George
Allen 1940 |
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GREEN Susan
1967 |
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PETERSON Alfred
1912 |
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GREENE E H C
(Harry) 1951 |
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PHILLIPS Barry
Gordon 1941 |
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GREENE Frank
Oswald 1912-2006 |
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PILKINGTON G B
1901 |
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GREENE J C
(Jack) 1910-1995 |
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REID Cecil 1905 |
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GREENE John
Frederick 1951 |
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STRACHAN
Margaret 1928 |
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GREENE Joseph
Cuthbert 1921 |
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STRACHAN Robert
William (Bob) 1927 |
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HANSEN Leslie
Albert 1939 |
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TAYLOR Ethel
May 1914 |
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JESSUP Samuel
1906 |
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WELSH Helen
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