Radium Hill
Radium Hill is a former mine site in South Australia which operated from 1906 until 1961. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson, it was Australia's first uranium mine, years before the country's next major mines at Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory, and the Mary Kathleen mine in Queensland.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Radium Hill
- Type: Locality
- Description: former mine in South Australia
- Categories: deep geological repository and mine
- Location: South Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-32.3° or 32° 18′ south
Longitude
140.66667° or 140° 40′ east
Elevation
267 metres (876 feet)
Open location code
4RV2PM28+2M
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Radium Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Radium Hill”
- Esperanto: “Radiuma Monto”
- French: “Radium Hill”
- German: “Radium Hill”
- Hebrew: “רדיום היל”
- Ukrainian: “Радіум-Гілл”
- Ukrainian: “Радіум-Хілл”
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