Circumnavigating Australia — Walking Port Hedland

Welcome to Port Heland

Radiance of the Seas arrived into Port Hedland on February 22 of this year. This was the smallest destination, population-wise, of our entire trip. But small does not equate to uninteresting. This is quite the busy port, and the port itself is a huge operation even if the town itself is small.

The port at Port Hedland

The primary export from this port is iron ore, and over 515 million tonnes/568 million U.S. tons of ore were shipped from here in 2019. Another export is sal...