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Kimberley

The Kimberley is one of the nine administrative regions of , with a population of just under 40,000 in 2023. These people are clustered in four medium-sized towns, with very few in the rest of its 421,000 km2 extent.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Purnululu National Park and Broome.

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is a park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This far northeast part of the state is a long way from anywhere: the nearest town is 300 km north.

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is the largest town in the Kimberley region of , with 14,660 residents in 2021. Established through the pearling industry of the late 19th century, it became a beach resort in the 1980s.

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is a town in the east of Kimberley region of , 45 km from the border with Northern Territory. It was created from 1958 when an ambitious irrigation project dammed the River Ord and created a large fertile area.

Destinations to Discover

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is a town in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, best known for its giant "prison" Boab tree. It's on the north coast on an inlet of King Sound, and in 2016 had a population of 3325, half of them Aboriginal.

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is a town in the Kimberley region of , with a population of 914 in 2021. This far northern Kimberley outpost is over 3000 km from the state capital Perth, twice its distance from Bali.

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is an unpaved road across the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. It stretches 647 km from Derby to the vicinity of Kununurra and Wyndham, and on the map it looks like a short cut, while the Great Northern Highway makes a great swing to the south.

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Wolfe Creek Crater is a meteor impact crater in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. It's circular, 880 m in diameter and 60 m deep, and is protected as a National Park. It's set in the semi-arid terrain of the Tanami Desert.

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, formerly known as Turkey Creek, is an Aboriginal community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, with a population of about 400. It's on the Great Northern Highway and its roadhouse is a stop-off for those passing through or heading to Purnululu National Park.

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is a small town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, with a population of 729 in 2016. It's the service town for the Aboriginal settlement of Looma and the vast Liveringa Station, but these are closed to visitors, and the only reason to come is for fishing on Fitzroy River.
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Kimberley

Latitude of center
-17.2883° or 17° 17′ 18″ south
Longitude of center
125.52° or 125° 31′ 12″ east
Population
50,100
Elevation
438 metres (1,437 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3806576191
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
2068482
Wiki­data ID
Q672805
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Kimberley” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيمبرلي”
  • Basque: “Kimberley (Mendebaldeko Australia)”
  • Basque: “Kimberley”
  • Breton: “Kimberley”
  • Catalan: “Kimberley”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیمبێرلی”
  • Chinese: “金伯利”
  • Dutch: “Kimberley”
  • Esperanto: “Kimberley”
  • French: “Kimberley”
  • French: “Terre de Diemen”
  • French: “Terre de Van Diemen”
  • Galician: “Kimberley, Australia Occidental”
  • Galician: “Kimberley”
  • Georgian: “კიმბერლი”
  • German: “Kimberley”
  • Hebrew: “אזור קימברלי”
  • Hebrew: “קימברלי, אוסטרליה המערבית”
  • Hebrew: “קימברלי”
  • Hungarian: “Kimberley régió”
  • Hungarian: “Kimberley”
  • Indonesian: “Kimberley (Australia Barat)”
  • Indonesian: “Kimberley”
  • Italian: “Kimberley”
  • Japanese: “キンバリー地域”
  • Kirghiz: “Кимберли”
  • Korean: “킴벌리 지역”
  • Korean: “킴벌리”
  • Latin: “Terra de Van Diemen”
  • Lithuanian: “Kimberlis (Australija)”
  • Lithuanian: “Kimberlis”
  • Malay: “Kimberley”
  • Persian: “کیمبرلی”
  • Polish: “Kimberley”
  • Portuguese: “Kimberley”
  • Russian: “Кимберли”
  • Serbian: “Плато Кимберли”
  • Spanish: “Kimberley”
  • Swedish: “Kimberley, Western Australia”
  • Turkish: “Kimberley (Batı Avustralya)”
  • Ukrainian: “Кімберлі”
  • Uzbek: “Kimberli”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kimberley”. Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.