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Fitzroy Crossing is a small town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 400 kilometres (250 mi) east of Broome and 300 kilometres (190 mi) west of Halls Creek.It is approximately 2,524 kilometres (1,568 mi) from the state capital of Perth.
It is located south-east of Fitzroy Crossing; 54 km by the sealed Great Northern Highway and 9 km by the unsealed Cherrabun Road. Ngalingkadji community is also referred to as Chestnut Bore. Ngalingkadji community is also referred to as Chestnut Bore.
He applied for an area of 100 square miles (259 km 2) at the junction of the Margaret and Fitzroy Rivers. [2] The MacDonalds, together with the McKenzie family from the junction near Tuena, who were close friends and related through marriage to the MacDonalds, formed a partnership to stock and equip the station in Western Australia. The ...
Noonkanbah Station (or just Noonkanbah) is a pastoral lease, both a cattle and sheep station, on the Fitzroy River between Camballin and Fitzroy Crossing in the south central Kimberley region of Western Australia. The station was pegged out in the 1880s and covered approximately 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi).
Fitzroy Crossing Airport (IATA: FIZ, ICAO: YFTZ) is located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northwest [1] of Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia.. The Airport has basic amenities including an undercover waiting area, water fountain and toilet facility for passengers.
Debate continues about the use of the Fitzroy as a water source for the south west of Western Australia. In 2005, Department of Housing and Works received grants totalling A$ 281,300 to build airstrips and improve facilities to Royal Flying Doctor Service standard at Louisa Downs and other places in the Kimberley as part of the Regional ...
It is located between the towns of Fitzroy Crossing and Turkey Creek (Warmun) on the Great Northern Highway. It is the only sizable town for 600 km on the Highway. Halls Creek is also the northern end of the Canning Stock Route, which runs 1,850 km through the Great Sandy Desert until the southern end of the route at Wiluna.
Jimbalakudunj was established in the early 1990s by members of the Nargoodah family moving away from Noonkanbah and Fitzroy Crossing onto Paradise Downs Station. An entity to manage the affairs of the community was established in 199 [ clarification needed ] .