Kununurra
The township of Kununurra was gazetted in 1960 and is the youngest town in the East Kimberley. From its humble beginnings as a small settlement that catered for the workers employed for the construction of the Diversion Dam, Kununurra is a vibrant centre that offers modern services, shopping facilities, an intensive agriculture, mining and tourism sector, a host of community activities and a lifestyle that suits the 6000 people that call Kununurra home. Although modern in its structure Kununurra retains a lot of its laid back feel and it is this quality that brings many people to town, either to settle here or just to visit.
Wyndham
Wyndham is the historic town of the region and was settled in the mid 1800's to service the Halls Creek gold fields and the outlying cattle stations. The Wyndham Port was first established in the 1880's and to this day provides a vital link in the export of live cattle, sugar from the Kununurra sugar mill and serves as a shipping facility to the numerous mining ventures in the region. The Port also caters for the numerous tourism vessels that ply the Kimberley coast or offer fishing charters to remote parts of the region. The boom days for Wyndham were during the operating years of the Wyndham Meatworks which employed around 500 workers. Today with a population of about 800 Wyndham still offers town services that cater to the locals as well as numerous tourism related places of interest.
Warmun (Turkey Creek)
The community of Warmun is located about 200 kilometres south west of Kununurra on the Great Northern Highway. Servicing the small community and the surrounding cattle stations Warmun is also ideally located to those visitors travelling into the Purnululu National Park. The Warmun Art Centre exhibits many of the local indigenous artists and is a popular gallery that many choose to visit while in the community.
