Christmas Island Old Drill Hole Clearing

Christmas Island Old Drill Lines Clearing

Created 13/01/2025

Updated 13/01/2025

This dataset shows the location of old drill lines cleared through the rainforest on Christmas Island. Drill lines were cleared to test the land for phosphate deposits and were cleared from the 1950’s through to the 1970’s, before Phosphate Resources Limited (PRL) began mining on the island.

Source

This data file or API can be downloaded from:

https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/8bf8c772-e303-4ca1-8eaf-395ed0530846/resource/5fefd517-a64a-4205-a183-0b8eb4548726/download/olddrillholeclearing.zip