WARMUN COMMUNITY - TURKEY CREEK TOWNSHIP

Warmun is a large Aboriginal Community with a population of 400+, located 3020km from Perth and 860km east of Broome and 160km north of Halls Creek on the Great Northern Highway. It is one of the principal access points to the beautiful Purnululu National Park and the famous Bungle Bungles.

The community is located along Turkey Creek which is a tributary of the Bow River. It is from this that the community and roadhouse gained their original name which has since been changed to Warmun.  Established for more than a century, “Turkey Creek” (now Warmun) was formerly a police station, government rations depot and on the original telegraph line from Wyndham to Derby.

Today it has an Australia Post agency, its own store, administration centre, school, arts centre, recreational facilities, a modern telecommunications network, is  serviced by ABC, SBS, GWN and WIN regional commercial television networks and has a daily Darwin to Perth Greyhound Australia bus service.

A kilometer up the road, the Warmun Roadhouse (owned by the community) has a very comfortable indoor dining area, general store, takeaways, several types of motel & backpacker accommodation, 20 powered caravan sites, camping areas, swimming pool, a secure caravan storage facility and all types of fuel.

This area of the Kimberley is classified as dry monsoonal with hot wet summers from November to March (the wet season), and warm dry winters from April to October (the dry season).  The actual start and finish of these two contrasting seasons varies from year to year.

Average daily maximum temperatures during the dry season is 30°C to 35°C and rises to a hot and humid 40°C during the wet season with an annual rainfall of 500mm to 750mm between December and March.

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