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The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.It is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy and Tanami deserts in the region of the Pilbara, and on the east by the Northern Territory.
The geology of the Kimberley, a region of Western Australia, is a rock record of the early Proterozoic eon that includes tectonic plate collision, mountain-building and the joining of the Kimberley and Northern Australia cratons, followed by sedimentary basin formation.
The Kimberley tropical savanna is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in northwestern Australia, covering portions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory south of the Timor Sea. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The national park is managed by the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation in conjunction with the traditional Aboriginal owners. [ 4 ] [ better source needed ] The range remained largely unknown except by local Aboriginal people and stockmen until 1982 when film-makers arrived and produced a documentary about the Kimberley.
Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 2,046 km (1,271 mi) north of Perth. The town recorded a population of 14,660 in the 2021 census. [1] It is the largest town in the Kimberley region.
Kimberley coastline (Western Australia) is a coastal region at the ocean edges of the Kimberley land region in the northern part of Western Australia. It commences at the border with Northern Territory and ends at Wallal where the Pilbara Coast commences.
Along with the Arctic and Alaska, the Kimberly in Australia’s north-west is one of the last great wildernesses on Earth. The size of it – twice that of the UK – compared with its inhabitants ...
The Central Kimberley, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the central Kimberley region of Western Australia, comprising an area of 7,675,587 hectares (18,966,790 acres). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] See also