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KHS Digitised Archive Images on Flickr [and how to view]

 To date KHS has over 2000 digitised archival photographic images, stored, organised, sorted and documented with information, which are made accessible to all using the Flickr platform. The best way to see what KHS has on Flickr is to View by "Collections" from www.flickr.com/photos/khs-museum/collections/ You can also view by "KHS Subject Themes" ("Collection") or by "KHS (Named) Archive Collections".

 Flickr is a web platform for the storage and organisation of digital images, into "Sets," "Collections" (of Sets), "Groups," and "Galleries,"  which also allow comments and social interaction from other users. As an example people can assist by identifying un-named people or places. You can interact with the KHS Flickr site if you have a Google, Facebook or Yahoo identity, there is no need to sign up to Flickr. IE. Sign in with one of these identities to interact or add your own comments, additional stories, or corrections. There is no need to sign in to Flickr to view the images.

Besides the main KHS "Photostream" - Also see "KHS Sets," "KHS Collections" (A Collection of KHS Archive Collections eg. "Kevin Richards 35mm Slide Collection") as well as a "Collection" of "KHS Subject Themes."

Also See - About the information for each image (Metadata in Images), which once embedded means no filling in fields on Flickr, as Flickr takes the embedded information from the image and Info for Non Profits (Almost Free Flickr for Non Profits)

KHS Administered GROUPs on Flickr

KHS also administers the following "Groups," which others can contribute to. If you have a Google, Facebook or Yahoo identity, there is no need to sign up to Flickr. IE. Sign in with one of the above-mentioned identities to interact.

  • Boab - Images of the Australian boab tree (Adansonia gregorii). Photographs from anyone of the amazing boab trees endemic to northern Australia.
Two groups for other Museums and Archival Institutions to contribute.
Subpages (1): KHS "Sets"
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Ninbing Boab in Early Morning Twilight

Site Owners

Kununurra Historical Society (KHS)
 Archive, Gallery Library, Museum & Research
Kununurra Museum - Coolibah Drive & Online

Dates & Events
Next KHS Meeting
1st Tuesday of the Month at 7pm
All Welcome

16days until
KHS Meeting 1st Tuesday of the Month (March 5th 2013) at 7pm - All Welcome!

63days since
KHS Open Day - On Sunday, March 17th 2013, when it was 50 Years since the Royal Tour visited Kununurra on March 17th 1963.

62days until
July 20th 2013, when it will be 50 years since the Ord River Diversion Dam was officially opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies

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.

60days since
March 20th, which was the date of the forced landing of 12 Squadron Wirraway A20-62 in 1942. Broome and Derby suffered air raids on this day, March 20th 1942.

1942

1943 (Dry Season)

70 Years ago at Carlton Reach

(Ord River Experimental Station)

During the dry season of 1943 Kim and Bill Durack continued their 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

News Flash!
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 plans to display 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 2011 It was
90 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

"Thethebeleng" or "Carlton Reach"
:-( now sadly, referred to as Lake Kununurra)
Was the largest permanent waterhole in the entire Kimberley Region, held back by a place called "Tharram," the "Rocky Falls" or "Jasper Bar" or "Bandicoot Bar," stretching all the way to "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

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839days since
This site was started on January 31st 2011

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