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Extract from the Kununurra Travel Guides:
KUNUNURRA
is the Kimberley's youngest town, built in the early 1960s to serve the
Ord River Irrigation Project
, fed by Lake Kununurra. The Diversion Dam Wall, an impressive sight as you come in from the west, created this lake, essentially the bloated Ord River. Fifty kilometres upstream is another dam, known as the Argyle Dam Wall, built in 1971 to ensure a year-round flow to the project, which has created
Lake Argyle
, the world's largest man-made body of water. Despite early problems, the Ord River Irrigation Project has moved on to something called Stage Two, expanding an intensive, yet still barely d...
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