Gwalia, on the edge of the desert in Western Australia, is an abandoned gold mining town. It was populated by struggling European miners brought in as cheap labor, many years ago, when the mine was booming. Their poverty meant the dwellings they built were small corrugated iron structures. The little buildings were numerous and tightly packed over the area of the town. Corrugated iron was used for everything and its texture pervades the town unifying the buildings and making it feel more a town than an unrelated collection of little huts.

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