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ˈwʊm ər əwoomer·a
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woomeranoun
An Australian spearthrower consisting of a stick with a hooked end.
Woomeranoun
Area of South Australia used in Australia's rocket launch program.
Woomeranoun
A town in South Australia, Australia located on the Nullabor Plain about 150 miles north of Adelaide.
Etymology: From the local Aboriginal name for a spear-thrower
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Woomera
Woomera Village is a small, remote, Australian Defence Force Base servicing the RAAF Woomera Test Range and lies within the bounds of the Woomera Prohibited Area. The "village" as it has been unofficially known since its establishment in 1947 as the domestic support base for the Woomera Test Range, is situated in the south-east corner of the WPA. The WPA is located in South Australia's North-West Outback Pastoral Region, and forms the essential ground area of the Range. The Range was first established in support of the Anglo-Australian Joint Project. This 'cold-war' project focussed on the development of long-range weapons systems, principally to counter the growing intercontinental ballistic missile threat from the former Soviet Union. The 'cold-war' heyday of the Range was 1947 to about 1972. In 1980 the Anglo-Australia Project was closed and the range itself saw little use until about 1991 when the RAAF's Aircraft Research and Development Unit took over the old instrumented range from DSTO. Since that time, the RAAF has gradually assumed full control of the entire facility. The Range, today, is much smaller than it was in 1947, but still covers one-seventh of the State of South Australia. Although there are now several major mines established within the WPA, the Woomera support base is the only permanently established 'township' facility in the WPA. The WPA, which covers an area of 127,000sqkm - or an area roughly the size of England or the US State of Florida, is the world's largest land-based fully instrumented defence systems test and evaluation range facility.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Woomera
wōōm′ėr-a, n. a stick for spear-throwing (Austral.).
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of woomera in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of woomera in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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