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People in Port Hedland have been stocking up on essentials following warnings to take shelter.
BBC: Australia hit by Tropical Cyclone Rusty
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Dalrymple Bay, which is fed by state-owned railways, may be congested, but Port Hedland, in western Australia, certainly is not.
ECONOMIST: The limits to growth
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Good descriptions of the Nullarbor (which means "treeless") Plain and of the fabulously awful industrial city of Port Hedland, north of the Outback Coast.
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Port Hedland had closed three main iron ore ports in the Pilbara region, the world's largest source of iron ore, as the cyclone approached.
BBC: Australia hit by Tropical Cyclone Rusty
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It seems odd - Port Hedland is surrounded by land.
BBC: Residents priced out of Australia's powerhouse port
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Port Hedland Deputy Mayor George Daccache told the Australian Associated Press (AAP) news agency that the winds and rain had been "relentless for the past two or three days".
BBC: Australia hit by Tropical Cyclone Rusty
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"The growth of the resource industry and the extreme nature of that growth - it wasn't just the town of Port Hedland, it caught the world out, " Ms Howlett says.
BBC: Residents priced out of Australia's powerhouse port
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She has secured approval for two new berths at Port Hedland, finished the deepwater dredging for them, and has started construction on her own two-hundred-and-fourteen-mile railway and high-tech remote operations center near Perth Airport.
NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter
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Port Hedland seems, at first glance, sleepy, stunned.
NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter