Why Is It Called the Kimberley in Australia?
You hear the name ‘the Kimberley’, and it feels big straight away. Ancient. Red. Remote. A place that hardly needs help sounding memorable. But the name itself is not ancient at all. The region was named in 1879 after John Wodehouse, the 1st Earl of Kimberley, a British colonial secretary. The naming is generally linked […]
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