Kununurra - Kununurra Kununurra is a town in north Western Australia located at the eastern side of the Kimberley Region close to the border with the Northern Territory. It is 3247km North of Perth and 834 km from Darwin. The population is 6,100, about half of whom are Aboriginal people. "Kununurra" comes from the Aboriginal language of the region and means "big waters". Lake Argyle, Australia's largest lake, over 100 sq/km in size, is only 72 kilometres from the town. The town is relatively new and was gazetted in the late 1950s, at the time that the Ord River Irrigation scheme was set up. The scheme involved damming the Ord River and building a diversion dam 50km downstream so that the waters can be directed to irrigate about.
Keep River National Park - Northern Territory of Australia, 418 km southwest of Darwin and 468 km west of Katherine. The nearest town is Kununurra in Western Australia. The park has a number of striking sandstone formations and there is an Aboriginal art site at the end of the walk along the floor of the Keep River Gorge. The park falls within the tribal area of the Mirriwung and Gadjerong people. Like most of the "Top End" parks, access can be restricted due to flooding in the wet season. The most comfortable period for visiting is between May and August when the temperature ranges from a max 35 C to a minimum of 10 C. See also: Protected areas of the Northern Territory (Australia).
Kimberleys - south by the Great Sandy Desert, and on the east by the Northern Territory. It covers an area of about 421,000 square kilometres. The region has only three towns with a population of more than 2,000 (Broome, Derby and Kununurra), and the total population is around 25,000. The Kimberley region was one of the earliest settled parts of Australia, with the first arrivals coming over about 20,000 years ago from the islands of what is now Indonesia. European settlement started around 1885, when cattle were driven across Australia from the Eastern States in search of good pasture lands. Many other Europeans arrived soon after, when gold was discovered around Halls Creek. Other industries have include pearling, diamond mining (including the Argyle Diamond mine which produces about 1/3 of the world's diamonds),.
Hidden Valley National Park - in Western Australia (Australia), 2220 km northeast of Perth. The entrance to the park is located two kilometres from the town of Kununurra. Geology The rock formations are very similar to the Bungle Bungle outcrops in Purnululu National Park. History "Mirima" is the name given by the Miriwoong people to the area extending some 150 kilometres to the north and south, and 170 kilometres to the east and west from Kununurra. See also: Protected areas of Western Australia.
Purnululu National Park - National Park is in Western Australia, 2054km northeast of Perth. The nearest town is Kununurra. Access to the park by road is via Spring Creek Track, from the Great Northern Highway approximately 250km south of Kununarra, to the track's end at the visitor centre. The track is 53km long and is useable only in the dry season (about April 1 to December 31), and only by four-wheel-drive (4WD) vehicles. Safely negotiating it takes approximately 3 hours. Access by air is less demanding; helicopter flights are available, from Turkey Creek Roadhouse at Warmun, 187km south of Kununurra, and light aircraft, from Kununurra. Purnululu Purnululu is the name given to the sandstone area of the Bungle Bungle Range by the Kija Aboriginal people. The range, lying fully within the park, has elevations as.
