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Service Station,Roadhouse Caravan Park River Crossing Rubbish Bin,Tip Fuel Water Supply Toilet Pub Mine Food,Shopping Police Station Medical Services Resort,Motel
PlaceID5769
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Latitude21.17067º S 21º 10' 14.41" S
Longitude119.7444º E 119º 44' 39.87" E
Altitude177m
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 Location of Marble Bar

From Nullagine, 88.48kms NW (113kms, 1hr 28mins driving) Driving Directions
From Port Hedland, 151.6kms SE (199kms, 2hrs 43mins driving) Driving Directions
From Bidyadanga Community, 348.62kms SW (556kms, 6hrs 33mins driving) Driving Directions
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 Description of Marble Bar

Marble Bar, is a town and rock formation in the Pilbara region of north-western Western Australia. It is well known for its extremely hot weather.The town was officially gazetted in 1893 following the discovery of gold in the area in 1890. The name Marble Bar was derived from a nearby jasper bar, known as Marble Bar, which runs across the bed of the Coongan River.

It had a railway connecting with Port Hedland up until the early 1950's, which can be seen as a narrow gauge precursor to the network of standard gauge iron-ore railways that have since been created across the Pilbara.

It is known as 'the hottest town in Australia' a fact which is still recorded by the Guinness Book of Records. For 161 consecutive days to 20 April 1924 the temperature in the town never dropped below 100°F (37.8°C). This record still stands after nearly seventy years.

Facilities in town include a Caravan Park, a Hotel, the Travellers Stop. A little further out the back of town is Chinaman's Pool and Marble Bar Pool - natural watering holes suitable for swimming where you can also see the Jasper outcrop from which the town took its name. 7km out of town you'll find the Comet Gold Mine, which today operates as a museum and tourist centre.

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Band of jasper mistaken to be marble a few km out of town
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Iron Clad Hotel
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Comet Mine

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 Places within 5km

Marble Bar Caravan Park - WA [0.43km]  
Caravan Park Food,Shopping Fuel Point of Interest
Nice quiet park, with powered/unpowered sites, good amenities, general store/service stn in main street of town. Sightseeing good, well worth a trip to Chinaman's Pool to see the marble outcrops.
Marble Bar Pool - WA [3.39km]  
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Duffer Creek - WA [4.79km]  
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 Weather & Climate for Marble Bar

Closest Weather Station

Marble Bar at 10:00 21 Nov WST
Distance from Marble Bar 0.78km SE
TemperatureFeels LikeRel. HumidityDew PointPressureRainfallWind DirectionWind SpeedGusts
29.9°C 24.1°C 17% 2.2°C 1012.2hPa 0.0mm ESE 22km/h
12knots
32km/h
17knots

Closest Climatic Station

Pardoo Station
Distance from Marble Bar 119.45km N
 JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean Max. °C 36.435.436.135.3 31.628.327.930.0 32.635.336.636.0
Mean Min. °C 25.825.824.421.5 17.314.812.813.6 16.019.621.924.9
Mean Rain mm 59.674.864.020.0 25.227.19.75.1 2.80.83.323.1

 What Others Say about Marble Bar

  Tuesday, 19 May 2009   Roy42   RatingRatingRatingRating
A pleasant surprise in the middle of nowhere. Caravan park 7/10, General store the same, Pub 9/10, g...
  Thursday, 30 April 2009   Member - Uncle (NSW)   RatingRatingRatingRating
The pub does a fantastic pizza! As well as a great cold beer.
  Sunday, 25 November 2007   Garbutt   RatingRatingRatingRating
Great pub, good caravan park, good scenery, Comet Mine worth a visit.
  Thursday, 18 October 2007   Member - Chris R (NSW)   RatingRatingRatingRatingRating
Stop for a coffee and Muffin with Vic - 'mine host' - at the Comet Gold Mine about 6km south west of...
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 Treks passing Marble Bar

East Pilbara Diversion East Pilbara Diversion
A great alternative trip avoiding the highways that is both a shortcut and very scenic. Shay Gap to Marble Bar and then along the Ripon Hills and Skull Springs loop around Carrawine Gorge and Eel Pool. [Feature Story]

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Raster 50K Pilbara WA - DVD Raster 50K Pilbara WA - DVD
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Western Australia Road and 4WD Atlas Western Australia Road and 4WD Atlas
Hema’s brand new Western Australia Road and 4WD Atlas contains 147 pages of detailed mapping all presented in an easy-to-read B4 coil-bound format. The South West region is covered with 96 pages of all-new mapping, at a scale of 1:250 000. The rest of the state is drawn from Hema’s best-selling regional maps, at a scale of 1:1 000 000.
Pilbara and Coral Coast Explorer Card Pilbara and Coral Coast Explorer Card
Going to the Pilbara or the Coral Coast and want more than a paper map to guide you? The Pilbara and Coral Coast Explorer Card offers Hema’s popular Pilbara and Coral Coast paper map in formats ready for use with your GPS tracking software, plus all the text from the original map in an easy-to-use format.
Natmap Digital Maps 2008 Natmap Digital Maps 2008
NATMAP Digital Maps 2008 is the next generation of Geoscience Australia's popular NATMAP Raster 1:250 000 scale topographic digital maps. NATMAP Digital Maps 2008 are exact digital copies of Geoscience Australia's NATMAP topographic maps. They cover the whole of Australia at 1:250 000 scale, and are current to 2006.
SF5008 Marble Bar SF5008 Marble Bar
This 1:250K topographic paper map covers an area about 150km from east to west and 110km from north to south (1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude). The map contains natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries.
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Australia Aus Tour DVD Australia Aus Tour DVD
A must have for the long distance explorer. Here, Memory-Map teams up with Hema to bring you their acclaimed 4WD and regional maps together with 13 interactive Map Guides.The Map-Guides provide great information on each region, bushwalking, campsites and 4x4 tracks with text and photos.
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Pilbara - Streetsmart Pilbara - Streetsmart
Detailed map including camping areas, caravan parks, picnic areas and covers major towns and attractions in the Pilbara area. Covers Dampier, Karratha, Newman, Onslow, Port Hedland, South Hedland, Tom Price and Wickham to Point Samson.
Pilbara and Coral Coast Pilbara and Coral Coast
One of the last great frontiers in Australia, the Pilbara is real 4WD country. This map has been field-checked using Hemas GPS mapping system and includes tracks and roads that have never before appeared on maps.

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