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DArWin To broome
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IN BRIeF Route
length Duration When to go
Road rating
Darwin to broome via the savannah Way and the Gibb river rd
2690km (not including side trips)
4–6 weeks
Dry season (April–october).
Check road conditions, as an early onset of the wet season may make sections of the road impassible.
• sealed two-lane and one-lane roads.
• Unsealed roads and 4WD tracks.
• An off-road camper-trailer will cope with
these roads.
• only heavy-duty off-road caravans
should be taken on the Gibb river rd in the Kimberley, otherwise travel via the Great northern Hwy.
1:7 500 000 200
GARIG GUNAK BARLU
0
400 Kilometres

Pirlangimpi (Garden Point)
Milikapiti
(Snake Bay)
Melville Island
NAT. PARK
Point Stuart
36
Cape Croker
Minjilang Murgenella
(Wauk) Warruwi
Oenpelli Jabiru
KAKADU NATIONAL PARK
Bathurst Island Nguiu Darwin
Darwin to Kununurra
pages 146–53

Parry Creek Farm Tourist Park
Batchelor 1
LITCHFIELD NAT. PARK
Daly River
Adelaide River
Pine Creek
NITMILUK
21
Bonaparte Archipelago

Prince Regent Nature Reserve
Mount Elizabeth
Mount Hart
Kalumburu
DRYSDALE RIVER NP
Port Keats (Wadeye)
(Bamyili) Katherine NP Barunga
Buccaneer Archipelago
Wyndham
Drysdale River
El Questro
Timber Creek
GREGORY Victoria NAT. River PARK Downs
Kalkarinji 96 (Wave Hill)
1
Top Springs
80
Mataranka Larrimah
1
1
Lake Argyle Tourist Village
Daly Waters
1
Lombadina

Beagle Bay

Derby
Warmun
Dunmarra
Elliott
87
Renner Springs
Tennant Creek
Coulomb Pt
1 pages 160–9
Great Sandy Desert
PURNULULU NP
Newcastle Waters
Broome
Kununurra to Wyndham
Looma
Lagrange Wyndham to Broome
Fitzroy
Crossing Halls Creek pages 154–9
Lajamanu
Tanami Desert
Sturt Creek
Billiluna Balgo
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