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| Birds over the Land Painting by Ladymaggic |
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Halls Creek (including the Bungle Bungles and Wolfe Creek Crater)
Fascinating outback town which is now two separate
townships
Halls Creek is not the town it used to be. This is true both literally and metaphorically as, in 1948, the
town was physically removed from its original site to its present location. Thus, like so many towns in the Kimberley, there
are two Halls Creeks. In 1948 the town began its movement from Old Halls Creek (15 km away) to the present site. This process
continued until the old township was finally abandoned in 1954. The reasons for the change of location were a combination
of lack of water, and a re–routing of the main Derby-Kununurra Road to avoid winding through the hills around the old
town.
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