Woomera

This is about the woomera, an Australian Aboriginal weapon. See also Woomera, South Australia, a town with historic links to rocket science and location of a controversial refugee detention camp.

Woomera, an Aboriginal spear throwing device. Having the same function as the American atlatl, its main differences are only in materials and method of construction, and in that the woomera has had continued use into the twenty first century in some remote areas of Australia.