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KHS Archive, Library, Museum & Research Facility

72 Coolibah Drive, Kununurra (100 metres from the Post Office).

If you are in Kununurra please visit our Museum and soak up some Ord River history.

The Kununurra Historical Society is a completely volunteer run Archive, Library, Museum and Research facility.

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Dry Season Hours - April to October - Open Monday to Friday 10.30am - 4pm (dependant on volunteer availability), or on request outside these hours.

Wet Season Hours - November to March - Work is often carried on at the museum during the wet season, so if you see a car there or the open sign out, feel free to call in. The KHS Museum can be opened any time outside these hours by arrangement - Contact the after hours number below.

For an accurate map of where KHS is located see the KHS Facebook Page

72 Coolibah Drive - PO Box 77

KUNUNURRA WA 6743

Phone: 08 9169 3331 A/H 08 9169 1600

Email: admin@kununurra.org.au

KHS Archive Images On-Line

A Photographic Journey on the Ord

See links to KHS images on Flickr from our landing page - http://www.kununurra.org.au/

See over 2500 photographs that have been digitised and documented by dedicated KHS volunteers for
"A Photographic Journey on the Ord."

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Next KHS Meeting

1st Tuesday of the Month at 7pm

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Kununurra Museum Events

For more information on Kununurra Museum Events, for the Australian "Year of the Farmer," see the KHS Events Page

1942

March 20th 1942

Wirraway A20-62

On March 20th 2017 it will be...

75 Years...

Since the forced landing of Wirraway A20-62, on coastal saltmarsh, just inside the WA/NT border, by Pilots Lew Dwyer and Warwick Carmody. See the permanent "Wirraway - Challenge" display at the KHS Museum.

1944

1944 (Dry Season)

70 Years ago at Carlton Reach

(Ord River Experimental Station)

During the dry season of 1944 Kim Durack continued work on the "Ord River Experimental Station," which had been set up late in 1941 at Carlton Reach using the waters of the Ord. More information is available about the 36 HP Petters "Atomic" diesel pump engine, used to raise the water for these first major experimental attempts at irrigation, at the twenty acre farm site. available from the Carlton Reach Pump Engine

ABC Kimberley Radio Interview (March 2013) - About the "Petters Atomic Diesel Engine - See http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/03/18/3718139.htm?site=kimberley

In April 2013 the 36 HP "Petters Atomic Diesel Engine" was donated to the Kununurra Historical Society by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA - Frank Wise Institute of Tropical Agriculture (formerly the Kimberley Research Station, where the engine was also in use until the 1950s), KHS now has the original pump engine by the entrance gate of the Kununurra Museum.

Events from 2011

Wyndham and Hall's Creek (aka "Kimberley") were established.

1886

125 Years Ago
(In 2011)

In May and June 2016 It will be..
95 Years
Since the WA and SA Government Astronomers came to the Kimberley in
1921
to determine the position of the WA/NT Border on the ground by using the new technology (in 1921), of radio time signals. This exepedition in 1921 would locate the border position and a WA Survey crew would come back in 1927 to build the Kimberley Obelisk, which still determines the border today.
Read More about the 1921 WA/NT Border Determinations

1941

1941
Carlton Reach Waterhole

"Thethebeleng" or "Carlton Reach"
:-( now sadly, referred to as Lake Kununurra)
Was the largest permanent waterhole in the Kimberley Region, held back by a quartzite rock bar called "Tharram," the "Rocky Falls" or "Jasper Bar" or "Bandicoot Bar," The Carlton Reach waterhole stretched from Bandicoot Bar all the way to the south end of the "Carlton Ridge" or the head of the "Sleeping Buddha, as it is known today."

"Kim's Place" or "Ord River Experimental Station" or "Ord River Experimental Farm" or "The Cabbage Patch" - No matter what it has been referred to in writing, this was the WA Government's precursor to the joint Federal (CSIRO) - State (WA Ag. Dept.) Kimberley Research Station (KRS).

The 1941 experimental station was set up at Carlton Reach, by Kimberley Michael Durack, for the Department of Agriculture WA, with assistance from the Public Works Department, along with his brother William A. (Bill) Durack, and other helpers along the way.

It will be 75 Years Ago
(in 2016)

Read More on the Carlton Reach Pump Engine Research Page

1961

Township of Kununurra
Resumption of Ivanhoe Stn. Land
February 10th 1961
Town of Kununurra Declaration

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