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Kununurra ( 15°46′23″S, 128°44′20″E; post code: 6743) is a town in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern side of the Kimberley Region close to the border with the Northern Territory. It is the largest Western Australian town north of Broome, with 5,485 inhabitants, many of whom are Indigenous Australians. It is 3040 kilometres from Perth (capital of Western Australia0 by road. Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 15 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $100,900 (4th) - Product per capita $50,355/person (3rd) Population (December 2006) - Population 2,050,900 (4th) - Density 0. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 438 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1000 × 1367 pixel, file size: 70 KB, MIME type: image/png) Shows location of w: Kununurra, Western Australia marked in red in the Australian state of w:Western Australia. ...
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The Perth skyline viewed from the Swan River This article is about the urban area of Perth, Western Australia. ...
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Kimberley is an Electoral district of Western Australia. ...
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Celsius is, or relates to, the Celsius temperature scale (previously known as the centigrade scale). ...
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Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 15 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $100,900 (4th) - Product per capita $50,355/person (3rd) Population (December 2006) - Population 2,050,900 (4th) - Density 0. ...
The Kimberley is one of the nine regions of Western Australia, consisting of the local government areas of Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Halls Creek and Wyndham-East Kimberley. ...
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Broome () is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley in the far north of Western Australia. ...
Indigenous Australians or Aborigines[1][2] are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ...
"Kununurra" comes from the Miriwoong language and means "river". Lake Argyle, Australia's largest artificial lake, over 100 km² in size, is 72 km 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. Miriwoong is an Australian Aboriginal language which today has about 20 speakers, most of whom live in or near Kununurra in Western Australia. ...
Lake Argyle from space, August 1985 Lake Argyle () is Australias largest artificial lake (by area), part of the Ord River Scheme, near the East Kimberley (Western Australia) town of Kununurra, located on the Kimberley Plateau. ...
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
The scheme involved damming the Ord River and building a diversion dam 50km downstream so that the waters can be directed to irrigate about 750 km² of land. By 1966 there were 31 farms on the Ord River plains. By 1972 the second stage of the scheme was completed with the opening of the Lake Argyle Dam. The Ord River is a river in northern Western Australia. ...
A diversion dam is a type of dam that diverts all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course. ...
The town also has a 'Celebrity Tree Park' with many trees planted by famous people including Rolf Harris. The town has many local attractions, including waterfalls, gorges and ranges. It was voted the second best town to live in in Australia for outdoor adventure by Outdoor Australia magazine in the March/April 2007 edition. Rolf Harris. ...
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Purnululu National Park is in Western Australia, 2054km northeast of Perth. ...
The Argyle diamond mine (, ) is a diamond mine located in the north-east of Western Australia. ...
Wyndham can refer to: Localities City of Wyndham in Victoria, Australia Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley in Western Australia Wyndham, Western Australia Wyndham, New Zealand in Southland, New Zealand Wyndham Hills in Ontario, Canada Wyndham, Virginia in the United States People with the last name of Wyndham Baron Wyndham, title...
External link Coordinates: -15.773752° 128.738737° Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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