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Kimberley
Region in Western Australia

Kimberley

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

Plan a trip to Kimberley→From Broome

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.

How locals move

Getting around Kimberley the local way

  • Get inAll of them are on round trip tours not point-to-point ferry lines.
  • Get aroundBut most of it is unsealed, passable only in the Dry by high-clearance 4WD: visitors should aim for June-Aug when that dry is assured.
  • Get aroundThey're 4WD only, and filling stations are as frequent as those in the Martian deserts.
  • Go nextSouth is desert, but in the Dry with 4WD you can follow Tanami Road to Alice Springs.

From Wikivoyage: Kimberley (Western Australia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Gordon Leggett (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.