Olympic Dam
The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, 550 km NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3 residents
- Description: poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia
- Also known as: “Olympic Dam mine” and “Olympic Dam, South Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Olympic Dam Airport.
Olympic Dam Airport
Aerodrome
Olympic Dam Airport is an airport that serves the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia. Alliance Airlines operate a public transport service between Olympic Dam and Adelaide, with planned expansions for the airport starting in 2006 and ongoing in 2011.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roxby Downs.
Roxby Downs
Town
Photo: Michael Coghlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roxby Downs is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia about 511 kilometres north of the state capital of Adelaide. The town has a highly transient population of around 4,000 people. Roxby Downs is situated 9 km south of Olympic Dam.
Olympic Dam
- Categories: mine and locality
- Location: South Australia, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-30.48614° or 30° 29′ 10″ southLongitude
136.89055° or 136° 53′ 26″ eastPopulation
3Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)IATA airport code
OLPUnited Nations Location Code
AU OLPOpen location code
4QXRGV7R+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1339619969OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8188966Wikidata ID
Q1473809
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Satellite Map
Discover Olympic Dam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Olympic Dam” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “奧林匹克大壩礦山”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منجم السد الاولمبى”
- French: “Mine d’Olympic Dam”
- French: “Olympic Dam”
- German: “Olympic Dam”
- Hungarian: “Olympic Dam”
- Indonesian: “Tambang Olympic Dam”
- Japanese: “オリンピック・ダム”
- Japanese: “オリンピックダム”
- Russian: “Олимпик-Дам”
- Thai: “Olympic Dam”
- Thai: “โอลิมปิก แดม”
- Ukrainian: “Olympic Dam mine”
- Ukrainian: “Olympic Dam”
- Ukrainian: “Олімпік Дам”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Roxby Downs Country Fire Service and Roxby Downs Police Station.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Olympic Dam”. Photo: Geomartin, CC BY-SA 3.0.