Welcome to a destination brimming with some of the state’s most striking natural landscapes. Kununurra and the East Kimberley region is filled with mystery, culture and some of Western Australia’s most prized natural attractions.
Kununurra Country Club Resort is your central sanctuary from which to access Western Australia’s extraordinary East Kimberley. Retreat in the comfort of your centrally-located Resort accommodation, less than 5km to the Kununurra airport, and on the doorstep to iconic natural wonders and hallmark attractions including the Bungle Bungles, Lake Argyle and the Ord River. Image Credit: Kununurra Country Club Resort
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Aboriginal history in the East Kimberley dates back more than 40,000 years and the Aboriginal rock art that exists in the Kimberley region is recognised as some of the best examples of rock paintings found anywhere in the world. The link from the Miriwoong people of today to their ancestors is evidenced through artwork, dancing, ceremonial and spiritual rites as well as in the strong family ties that bond family groups together.
European settlement of the East Kimberley region started after Michael Durack and a group of NSW pastoralists sailed into the Cambridge Gulf in search of suitable grazing country. Two years later, in 1884, the first cattle arrived after being driven overland from New South Wales and Queensland and white settlement on stations began.
In 1886, the township of Wyndham was surveyed, and in 1909 the WA government sent a representative to investigate the potential for tropical agriculture in the state’s north. Reports were favourable but progress was slow.
In 1923, Frank Wise, a Queensland Department of Agriculture officer, was appointed tropical advisor for the region and was a driving force initiating irrigated agriculture trials but it was almost 40 years before Diversion Dam was built.
