Roxby Downs, South Australia

Roxby Downs is a town in the outback of South Australia, 563 km from Adelaide. The village with about 4,000 inhabitants, was built as accommodation for persons employed in uranium mining man of the mine Olympic Dam in 1987, which is 10 km north.

Roxby Downs was a city founded in Australia, the Billiton in cooperation with the State Government and one of the largest mining companies in the world, BHP, in a most remote regions of Australia complete with residential buildings and associated infrastructure (roads, water and electricity supply) has been established. In the mine, which covers an area of ​​260 km ², is mined in addition to copper, uranium, gold and silver.

The city has a swimming pool, a cinema, cultural center, shopping center, cafe and cultural spaces, cafe and sports clubs. On November 5, 1988, she was officially opened in 2005 and a municipal city government installed a prerequisite for this was an Indenture Act and the site is now managed by the Roxby Downs Municipal Council.

In the near Roxby Down is about 30 km east Andamooka, a place of opal mines and Woomera, 84 km south, a settlement of the Australian Defence Force, which conducted nuclear tests at the Woomera Prohibited Area.