Crafting a future from the past
OUR CONVOY OF “troopies” and more traditional four-wheel-drives hit the corrugated Gibb River Road north of Derby, Western Australia. This route is renowned not only as the gateway to the wilderness frontier of the Kimberley, but as a graveyard of tyres, trailers and caravans claimed every tourist season. It’s also the way to Wilinggin country, the traditional lands of Ngarinyin people, on the northern Kimberley plateau. Their connection to Country dates back 60,000 years and their Native Title area (the Wanjina Wunggurr Wilinggin Native Title) spans some 63,000sq.km – roughly the size of Tasmania.
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