 Site OwnersKununurra 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 Welcome16days until 63days since 62days until Kununurra Museum EventsFor more information on Kununurra Museum Events, for the Australian "Year of the Farmer," see the KHS Events Page 1942March 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 Main Links19421943 (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 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 2011Wyndham 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 19411941 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 1961Township of Kununurra Resumption of Ivanhoe Stn. Land February 10th 1961 Town of Kununurra Declaration Top (Top of page text start - Starts below header photograph of the Diversion Dam) 839days since Navigation
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