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 * The Kimberley** is in the northern part of Western Australia, 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, and on the east by the Northern Territory. - [|Wikipedia]

Fitzroy Crossing
[|Kimberley Traditional Owners unite for the Fitzroy River] [|Fitzroy_Crossing - Wikipedia] [|@tarunda]

Spotlight on Kimberley National Park
[|Australia's biggest national park to be created in WA's Kimberley as mining companies relinquish tenement] A five million hectare slice of Western Australia's Kimberley region will become the country's largest national park after the State Government struck a deal forever banning mining in the iconic Mitchell Plateau.

http://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/news/media-statements/minister-for-environment/item/1426-way-forward-for-kimberley-national-park - [|@WAParksWildlife]

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Elsewhere on the Web
[|Kimberley - Radio National] [|Kimberley Land Council] - [|@KLC1978] - [|Google+] [] [|The Kimberley - gearing up for heritage listing] [|What next for Western Australia's Kimberley region?]- The Federal Government placed a big chunk of the Kimberley on the National Heritage List, joining other well-known sites including the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Opera House and Uluru. [|Traffic and Road Conditions - Kimberley Region] [|The Kimberley: Australia's Last Great Wilderness] [] http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/west-kimberley/oneplace-manystories.html http://concertforthekimberley.com.au http://blog.parksaustralia.gov.au/2014/06/02/learning-about-disappointment-in-the-kimberley http://www.brianleetagalong.com.au http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/aboriginal-culture-at-risk-in-kimberley/5924386

The [|Warlu Way] is a 2,480 kilometre self-drive trail through Western Australia's spectacular Gascoyne, Pilbara and Kimberley regions.

The West Australian government is creating a marine park at Camden Sound, off the Kimberley coast. About 1000 humpback whales have their calves at Camden Sound each year in what scientists believe is the largest whale nursery in the southern hemisphere. Every year an estimated 20,000 Humpback Whales, including mothers and their newborns, spend their winter in the warm, unspoiled waters just off WA's Kimberley coast. [|The secret pathway of the Ngarinyin - Awaye]

The Ngarinyin people of the northern Kimberley were shifted off their lands and forcibly settled at Mowanjum in 1956. Finally in 2003, the Federal Court ruled that the Ngarinyin had exclusive native title rights over their homelands. But the Ngarinyin had been fighting through the courts for years to regain their homelands and control of their rock art sites. In 1997, a group of Ngarinyin elders, led by the late David Mowaljarlai, took their struggle to UNESCO in Paris. They went to tell an international audience the value of their rock art, the wealth of cultural knowledge they hold about their country, and their fears that it would all be lost when they died.

[|Tough, tasteless, fatty meat bringing in the tourists]

[|Cultural and environmental heritage 'threatened' by gas hub proposal] - The bulldozers have started moving in on the site of the proposed gas hub at James Price Point in the Kimberley about 60 kilometers north of Broome in Western Australia

[|Western Australian dinosaur footprints threatened by gas works and port facilities] [|Save our Kimberley] [] [|Kimberley in crisis - Wilderness Society] [|Natural and cultural assets promise a sustainable future for the Kimberley - ACF] [|Appropriate economic development for the Kimberley - ACF] [|Kimberley Report - ACF] (PDF) [|Gas Developers - KLC] (PDF)

Kimberley rock art could be among oldest in the world  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-13/aboriginal-group-charges-cruise-passengers-visiting-kimberley/8790004

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Flickr Groups
https://www.flickr.com/groups/kimberly

Twitter
[|@KLC1978]

[|@tarunda]

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[|Improving literacy through Indigenous stories and songs] A new book features the songs of the Yakanarra Community in the Kimberley, Western Australia, in the local language of Walmajarri, as part of a wider push to improve Indigenous literacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakanarra_Community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmajarri_language