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STATION IS
RESTORED
The Ashmore Island
automatic weather station in
the Timor Sea has. been restored
following its stripping
by vandals late last year.
The Minister for the Interior,
Mr Hunt, said the
unmanned weather station,
540 miles west of Darwin,
was a vitaLpart of the tropi
cal cyclone warning system
off the north-west coast.
It ceased transmission last
October. A Bureau of
Meteorology officer making
a routine maintenance visit
in December found its instruments
and electronic
equipment stolen and the
building extensively damaged.
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