NorthWest Christian Fellowship | Karratha WA

North-West Christian Fellowship is situated in the town of Karratha north Western Australia, our town has a population of approximately 20,000 souls.

Karratha and near by town of Dampier is the home of the great North-West Shelf Oil and Gas project, which supplies Liquefied Natural Gas to the Asia Pacific region. Karratha is a modern and expensive town catering for mining workers in the Pilbara region located 1557 km north of Perth Western Australia, on a great fishing spot called Nickol Bay.

Karratha is a modern town providing accommodation and services for the employees of Hamersley Iron, Robe River Associates, Woodside Energy LTD and the Dampier Salt Company.

The Karratha area was first settled as a result of F. W. Gregory's glowing reports about the pastoral potential of the Pilbara in 1866 Dr Baynton and Harry Whittal-Venn established Karratha sheep station. The name 'Karratha' supposedly meant 'good country' in the language of the local Aborigines. The station continued to operate under Baynton and Whittal-Venn until 1879.

The modern town of Karratha, was planned and constructed in 1968-9 as a joint State government with the Hamersley Iron project to meet the expanding accommodation needs of the mining company.

The township of Dampier which is only 30 kilometers away, which was serving the needs Hamersley Iron and housing the people employed at the port facilities,
was restricted in its ability to grow and consequently Karratha was developed on the Nickol Bay area as by 1973 Dampier had reached its growth capacity.

As it grew the other major mining company, Robe River Iron Associates, invested money in the town. Today it is home to over 12000 people and, as the population continues to increase, the town has taken on a life of its own and the number of service industries continues to grow.
It is the only town in the north west to have a major industrial estate servicing the needs of the community. It is planned that the town will eventually house over 30 000 people. Inevitably the administrative functions of the Pilbara have all been moved to the town.

"NorthWest Christian Fellowship is situated in the town of Karratha"

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