Orientation
Broome Surrounds
and Dampier Peninsula are fashionable tourist destinations. Nice beaches and realtively few people make for a nice retreat away from it all.The Gibb River Road crosses the heart of the region.
The Mitchell Plateau is an extremely remote region of wilderness.
In the South Kimberley, the Great Northern Highway crosses bushland for several hundred kilometers.
Understand
The Kimberley is one of the world's last great wilderness areas, and covers an area large enough to fit the U.K. twice, though the total population is slightly higher than 40 000. Most of the population is concentrated in small towns such as Kununurra and Wyndham in the East and Broome and Derby on the coast in the west. Highlights of the Kimberley include magnificent wilderness scenery, rare fauna and flora and a rich and colourful history. The Kimberley thrives as a tourist destination with 85% of the population being tourists. The area draws much of its history on its pearling industry. There are several historic reminders in Broome such as a Japanese cemetery of the importance of pearls for the Kimberley. Museums run by local historical societies in Broome, Kununurra and Wyndham, as well as the Argyle Downs Homestead Museum at Lake Argyle, are all worth investigating to take in the history.