- Stock Photography: VICTORIA HIGHWAY KIMBERLEYS by Mauriehill
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- Photo title: Victoria Highway Kimberleys
- Author: Mauriehill
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- In northern Western Australia population is sparse, no more so than the remarkable Kimberleys, where roads are rarer. The Kimberley consists of the ancient, steep-sided mountain ranges of northwestern Australia cut through with sandstone and limestone gorges and steep ridges, from which the extreme monsoonal climate has removed much of the soil. The southern end of the Kimberley beyond the Dampier Peninsula is flatter with dry tropical grassland and is used for cattle ranching. In parts of the Kimberley, such as the valleys of the Ord and Fitzroy Rivers in the south, the soils are relatively usable cracking clays, whilst elsewhere they are lateritic Orthents. Although none of the mountains reach even 1,000 metres 3,281 ft, there is so much steep land as to make much of the region difficult to traverse, especially during the wet season, when even sealed roads are often flooded. The coast is typically steep cliffs in the north but flatter in the south, all subject to high tides. The Kimberley was one of the earliest settled parts of Australia, with the first arrivals landing about 41,000 years ago
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