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Kununurra comes from the English pronunciation of Gunanurang in the Miriwoong language with a general meaning of " Big Waters " having become the popular definition or " Big River " Other accounts of the name of Kununurra state that it was the Miriwoong name for this part of the Ord River, which makes sense in that the Ord River runs for hundreds of kilometres coming from the south near Hall's Creek.
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It is located approximately from Perth just outside the township of Kununurra.
" 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.
Access to the park by road is via Spring Creek Track, from the Great Northern Highway approximately 250 km south of Kununurra, to the track's end at the visitor centre.
Access by air is less demanding ; helicopter flights are available, from Bellburn Airstrip in the national park, and light aircraft, from both Warmun, 187 km south of Kununurra, and Kununurra.
Kununurra is a town in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley Region approximately from the border with the Northern Territory.
Kununurra is from Perth via the Great Northern Highway.
Kununurra was built on land resumed from Ivanhoe Station pastoral lease before 1961, as the town for the Ord River Irrigation Area which started as the Ord River Project or Ord Scheme, with survey work starting in 1959.
Flooding of the Ord River continued until completion of the Main Ord River Dam situated 55 km upstream from Kununurra, which was started in 1968, and officially opened on 30 June 1972, with support from WA Premier John Tonkin, by then Prime Minister William McMahon, when he said " This marks the beginning of Ord Stage II ( Two ).
In May 2010, with major funding from the Federal Government, the extension of the main channel construction got underway under the Moonamang Joint Venture and images of this as well as historic archive images of the Ord Scheme can be seen on the Kununurra Historical Society website from the external link below.
Elders WA had begun and the first steps had been taken towards a branch network that would eventually extend from Kununurra to Esperance and Perth to Kalgoorlie.
Because it is kilometres by road from the nearest settlement ( Kununurra ), a complete residential camp has been constructed on site.
Kununurra and with
Kununurra is the largest town in Western Australia north of Broome, with the closest town being Wyndham, away.
This dam with twenty radial flood gates was almost completed when visited by the Queen and Prince Phillip in March 1963, then later completed and officially opened by then Prime Minister, ( Sir ) Robert Menzies on 20 July 1963 when he said that Kununurra and the Ord River Irrigation Area ( ORIA ) is ".. the most exciting place in Australia.
The landscape surrounding Kununurra includes features such as Valentine Spring, Black Rock Creek and Middle Springs along with many other waterfalls and swimming holes.
Kununurra has a Celebrity Tree Park with many trees planted by famous people including Rolf Harris, and more recently Baz Luhrmann, after the majority of the filming for his film Australia was conducted just outside of Kununurra.
The population is fairly evenly distributed, with only three towns having populations in excess of 2, 000: Broome ( 15, 000 ), Derby ( 3, 600 ) and Kununurra ( 5, 000 ).
The largest protected areas are the Prince Regent Nature Reserve and the Drysdale River National Park along with Gregory National Park and Keep River National Park across in the Northern Territory which preserve similar habitats, ( and indeed Keep River's nearest town is Kununurra in the Kimberley ).
Additionally Lake Argyle, along with Lake Kununurra, are recognised as a Ramsar protected wetlands and were listed in 1990 as Australian Site Number 32.
Lake Argyle, together with Lake Kununurra, is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.
The lake is recognised as an important wetland area under the Ramsar Convention ; with Lake Kununurra it forms the Lakes Argyle and Kununurra Ramsar Site.
Along with Broome and Kununurra, it is one of only three towns in the Kimberley to have a population over 2, 000.
The Ord River Irrigation Area ( ORIA ), which was originally known as the Ord River Irrigation Scheme ( ORIS ) or Ord River Project, when it was approved by the Commonwealth Government, late in 1959 and began in 1960 with the establishment of the town of Kununurra, which was gazetted a town on 10 February 1961.
The Ord River Diversion Dam holds back Lake Kununurra, which gravity feeds the Ord River Irrigation Area with water via the Main Channel ( M1C1 ).
The main channel is visible in the photograph with Lake Kununurra, Ord River ( formerly the Carlton Reach waterhole, Ord River ) in the background.
It consists of a new 36 MW hydro electric power station at Lake Argyle interconnected, by lengthy 132 kV transmission lines, with existing diesel fuelled power systems at the Argyle diamond mine and the Kununurra township.
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Kununurra was initiated to service the Ord River Irrigation scheme.
Lake Kununurra, is the flooded section of the Ord River valley that was formerly known as Carlton Reach, which was at times a ten kilometre long waterhole held back by the natural rock barrier, known as Bandicoot Bar.
More recently agriculture has been focused on the Ord River Irrigation Area near Kununurra.
In May 1977, shortly after completing a buffalo catching job in Kununurra, Western Australia, Ansell decided to travel to the Victoria River on what he claimed was a fishing trip.
* Domestic scheduled destinations: Broome, Darwin, Gove, Groote Eylandt, Karratha, Kununurra, Maningrida, Milingimbi, Elcho Island, McArthur River mine, Mount Isa, Perth, Port Hedland, Port Keats and to the Gold Coast, Townsville
It is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme and is located near the East Kimberley ( Western Australia ) town of Kununurra.
Kununurra and Other
Other registries are located at Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Busselton, Carnarvon, Derby, Esperance, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Kununurra, and South Hedland.
Kununurra and was
On the first pastoral lease map ( held by WA State Records Office ) for the area dated 1887, it shows the northern bank between Wyndham and Kununurra, near House Roof Hill was held as a " Concession for Sugar Cane Planting ," although it was never taken up.
The Museum had been run by Tourism WA but was taken on by the Kununurra Visitor Centre during 2010.
The Great Northern Highway was closed between Kununurra and Halls Creek for a period of 36 hours due to flooding.
Kununurra and for
" Kununurra has a transient population ; if itinerant residents, the outlying farm areas and communities were included in these population figures, numbers would have exceeded 7, 000 for 2006.
* Kununurra Historical Society Inc. Archive, Library, Museum & Research for a " Photographic Journey on the Ord.
* Kununurra Historical Society Inc. Archive, Library, Museum & Research for links to history images of the Kimberley
The main Ord River dam also generates power for the local community of Kununurra.
Conference ( 1991: Kununurra, W. A ) 50 years of Ord irrigation: review & future perspectives: conference proceedings, Kununurra, Western Australia, 1 – 3 November 1991 / sponsored by Minister for North West Agriculture, Water Resources, Ord Development Council.
* Kununurra Historical Society Inc. Archive, Library, Museum & Research for history and images of the Ord River.
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