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Katherine to Broome (Via The Gibb River Road)

The Victoria River District and Kimberley is a vast area, towns are few and far between. Our trip took us from Darwin through to Katherine where we would start the next part of our journey. We drove through Gregory National Park and got our first glimpse of the Katherine river.


 Instead of our planned route on sealed roads we decided to take the Gibb River Road which is nearly 700km of unsealed road, some parts much rougher than others. This leg of our journey was a total distance of 1750km

Total Distance: 1750km

"Kununurra is a town in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley Region approximately 37 kilometres (23 mi) from the border with the Northern Territory. Kununurra was initiated to service the Ord River Irrigation scheme.

Kununurra is the largest town in Western Australia north of Broome, with the closest town being Wyndham, 100 kilometres (62 mi) away. Kununurra is 3,040 kilometres (1,889 mi) from Perth via the Great Northern Highway” ~ READ MORE >>


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KATHERINE ~ Victoria River ~ Timber Creek ~ KUNUNURRA ~ Jacks Waterhole ~  Mount Barnett Station ~ DERBY ~ Roebuck Plains Roadhouse ~ BROOME

Katherine to Broome
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 Victoria River
 Timber Creek
 Kununurra
 Jacks Waterhole
 Mount Barnett
 Derby
Broome
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Australia Tour ~ Katherine to Broome
The Route…..
NO FUEL AVAILABLE FOR 403KM BETWEEN KUNUNURRA AND MOUNT BARNETT STATION ALONG THE GIBB RIVER ROAD
** Information from Wikipedia
This part of our journey took us back to Katherine from Dawrin. Our first night was spent on a campsite 50km outside of Katherine so we could make a start towards the WA border. This time we remembered to eat all our fruit and vegetables on board before reaching the border so that we didn’t have them taken away!
From the WA border we arrived in Kununurra where we stocked up with some essentials and headed out to the start of the Gibb River Road. We had decided that we wanted to take a more scenic route to Broome along this unsealed road. The corrugations were rough and then disaster struck, the wagon was having issues changing gear! It was a long drive from Mount Barnett Station to find help.

Our next stop was Derby and we headed onwards to Broome. The Jackaroos problems had mysteriously disappeared?!
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