Wyndham, Western Australia
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Wyndham is the northernmost town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 3,315 kilometres northeast of Perth via the Great Northern Highway. It was established in 1886 to service a new goldfield
Wyndham's Three Mile area, looking south to the King River
Aboriginal Australians in chains at Wyndham prison, 1902.
Wyndham Port from the air, 1962
Kununurra, Western Australia
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Kununurra is a town in the far north of Western Australia located at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley approximately 45 kilometres from the border with the Northern Territory. Kununurra was initi
Wyndham, Western Australia
…occasions by Japanese aircraft. Wyndham's significance as a service centre was crucial for the construction of the Ord River Diversion Dam and the town of Kununurra in the early 1960s. With the rise of Kununurra as a larger population centre, the significance of Wyndham as a service centre had diminished by the…
Kununurra in summer from Hidden Valley National Park lookout
Ord river crossing prior to building of the Diversion Dam in 1961–63
Bandicoot Bar, Ord river before construction of dam started
Construction of the Ord river diversion dam