Kununurra

Western Australia, Australia

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In Kimberley
A new community, Kununurra, was built on the Ord in the 1960s as a service centre for development in that area. Some mineral deposits, including kimberlite (diamond-bearing rock) and traces of oil, have been found on the plateau, and diamonds are now mined at Argyle. There are more…
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In Ord River
Kununurra town was built nearby as the service and residential centre. A larger dam, built 25 miles south of Kununurra in 1970–72, holds the main reservoir (Lake Argyle). Initially, the water was used to irrigate cotton fields, but this crop was soon rendered uneconomic by…
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