Kununurra is a town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is reasonably new in that it was only gazetted in the 1960s. Its reason for being is the Ord River Irrigation Scheme which is supplied from Lake Argyle, the largest inland waterway in Australia.

The town's growth has been steady and 40 years later it has a population of 7,000. Growth has been fuelled by mining, agriculture and tourism.

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Get around

See

Within easy reach of Kununurra are:

• Celebrity Tree Park - a grove of trees planted by famous Australian people eg Rolf Harris
• Lake Argyle
• Lake Kununurra

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Get out

• Mirima National Park
• Purnululu National Park
• Turkey Creek (Warmun) - An Aboriginal community with a roadhouse which provides basic accommodation and access to the Purnululu National Park (Bungle Bungle Range) from the heliport adjacent to the roadhouse. Flights into the Park cost $220 AUD per person.
• Wyndham - This is an adjacent town which among other interesting features has a superb lookout site overlooking five rivers which enter the Cambridge Gulf. The rivers are the Ord, Forrest, King, Durrack and Pentecost.