Mowanjum
Mowanjum is a village in Derby-West Kimberley, Western Australia and has about 226 residents.Places of Interest
Highlights include Boab Prison Tree and West Kimberley Regional Prison.
Boab Prison Tree
Photo: Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Baobab Prison Tree, Derby is a 1,500-year-old, large hollow Adansonia gregorii tree 6 kilometres south of Derby, Western Australia with a girth of 14.7 metres. Boab Prison Tree is situated 3½ km west of Mowanjum.
West Kimberley Regional Prison
Prison
West Kimberley Regional Prison is an Australian prison near Derby in the Kimberley region of north-western Western Australia. It was established in August 2012. West Kimberley Regional Prison is situated 2½ km west of Mowanjum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Derby.
Derby
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Derby 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.
Mowanjum
- Type: Village with 226 residents
- Category: locality
- Location: Derby-West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.35577° or 17° 21′ 21″ southLongitude
123.70045° or 123° 42′ 2″ eastPopulation
226Open location code
5QJ5JPV2+M5OpenStreetMap ID
node 5705053182OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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