2 K Tours - Kununurra & The Kimberley - Western Australia

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Area Statistics

  • The Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley, North West Australia, covers an area of 121,000 square kilometres (about 2 ½ times the size of Tasmania and half the area of Victoria).
  • Lake Argyle is capable of holding some 10,500 million megalitres of water, up to 35 times the volume of water in Sydney Harbour.
  • Before damming, the Ord River was measured at flowing at a rate of about 1 million cubic feet per minute during peak flow in the "wet" season. This flow equates, for example, to the daily water consumption of metropolitan Sydney passing down stream in about 26 seconds.
  • Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA), is the irrigation industry area formed by the damming of the Ord River by the construction of the Diversion Dam in 1959-1963 to hold back the waters of Lake Kununurra (90 million megalitres storage) and the Main Ord Dam in 1969-1972 to form Lake Argyle
  • The irrigation project covers 14,500 hectares and crops from the area include, sugar, sorghum, maize, sunflower, sandalwood, bananas, mangoes, as well as the whole family of cucurbits (melons, squash, pumpkins, zucchini etc). Future expansion envisaged would see development of a further 32000-40000 hectares for irrigation.

Contact 2K Tours

Keith & Anne Wright
Box 1019 Kununurra
WA 6743 Australia
Telephone: (08) 9168 1314 International: +61 8 9168 1314
Facsimile: (08) 9168 2650 International: +61 8 9168 2650
Mobile/Cell: 0427 633 455 or 0428 633 455

Or Kununurra Visitors Centre
Telephone +61 8 9168 1177

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