Kimberley
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administrative region of Western Australia
Key facts
- Country
- Australia
- State
- Western Australia
- Lgas
- Shire of Broome Shire of Derby–West Kimberley Shire of Wyndham–East Kimberley Shire of Halls Creek
- State electorate
- Kimberley
- Federal division
- Durack
- Total
- 423,517 km (163,521 sq mi)
- Density
- 0.0811396/km (0.210151/sq mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is 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 in the region of the Pilbara, and on the east by the Northern Territory.
The region was named in 1879 by government surveyor Alexander Forrest after Secretary of State for the Colonies John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kimberley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.