This route takes you from Kununurra via the Victoria Highway, the Great Northern Highway and the Gibb River Road to Imintji (King Leopold Ranges) where you will spend the night at the Bell Gorge Wilderness Lodge. The Gibb River Road is a dirt track, so pay attention! Imintji is a town just off the Derby Gibb River Road in northeastern Western Australia. Western Australia's capital, Perth, is located about 1900 km to the southwest of Imintji. It is located at an elevation of about 372 meters, and is one of the northernmost places in Western Australia. Imintji is located on Grave Creek. The nearest most populous place is the town of Fitzroy Crossing, which is 120 km away and has about 1500 inhabitants.

Before you leave you can do some shopping and make sure you have enough petrol with you, immediately after departure you will have an opportunity to refuel. It is advisable to bring a support vehicle on this journey through Western Australia.

The 1st attraction on this route is the Kununurra Dam. In 1941 the government started an experimental farm along the river Ord, but it was closed again in 1945. Engineers studied the possibilities of a dam in the river. In 1945, federal and state governments jointly set up a research station in the Ivanhoe Plain and experimented with crops such as rice, safflower, linseed, and sugar cane. In 1959, the Ird River Irrigation Program was approved and the necessary funds released. The first phase of the program was completed by 1963. The Ord River Diversion Dam, also known as the Kununurra Diversion Dam, is 335 meters wide and has twenty locks through which water can be led to the plains via irrigation channels. The next stop is "The Grotto", one of the most northerly places in Western Australia. Make some nice pictures for your scrapbook.

After your visit to Grotto, drive back and then turn onto Gibb River Road, which is a dirt track! The Gibb River Road connects the Derby Gibb River Road, the Great Northern Highway, the Kalumburu Road, the Karunjie Road and the King River Road. About halfway through the route you will arrive at Gibb River Station.

The Gibb River Station, located halfway down the famous Gibb River Road, owned by the Ngallagunda Aboriginal Corporation, is a working livestock station measuring nearly 1 million acres. The station includes the home, the community store, a gas station, the Aboriginal Art Center and the Goondalee Camping. Founded in the 1920s by the pioneer Russ, the station is once again Aboriginal owned. Travelers are welcome to stay at the campsite, where they can camp on green lawns and enjoy hot showers and toilets.

This route also goes through the outback, these are the regions that are far from civilization. The outback covers nearly three-quarters of Australia and mainly covers the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and parts of the states of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
The term outback includes various landscapes and climatic zones. Large parts of the outback in Western Australia are inaccessible: sometimes there is no rain here in years, while in summer the temperature rises above 50 ° C. The Queensland outback, on the other hand, consists partly of tropical rainforest.

The characteristics of the outback are:
- Only a few paved roads are present. Farms (stations) are often located on sandy paths that can only be driven with off-road vehicles. It is no exception when a farm is 80 kilometers from the paved road.
- Farms are self-catering. It is no problem if a supermarket cannot be visited for weeks.
- Settlements with several houses, a gas station, a supermarket, a garage, a bank and catering facilities are hundreds of kilometers apart.
- Children receive remote education via radio (School of the Air) and the Internet.
- In the event of serious illness and accident, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is called upon.
Camels were imported from the Middle East in 1870. They live partly on farms, partly in the wild.
- Of the approximately 300,000 Aborigines (approximately 1.5% of Australia's total population), approximately 20% live in the outback, most of them in reservations.

This 4-star rated route is mostly on the unpaved Gibb River Road. Watch out for the so-called "Road Trains", a road train is a truck combination consisting of a tractor or tow truck, combined with several trailers or semi-trailers. Off-road, road trains are not subject to vehicle length limits. In mining at open-pit quarries, combinations up to 100 meters in length are used.
Another beautiful route with an overnight stay in a luxury lodge.

General info:
Western Australia (Western Australia) covers the state of the westernmost part of the Australian continent. The first Dutch people who set foot ashore called it New Holland.

With 2,529,875 km², it is Australia's largest state in area and roughly covers one third of the continent. Still, in 2016 there were only about 2,474,410 inhabitants. Western Australia is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the south, west and north. To the east, the state borders the Northern Territory and South Australia; Surveyor General's Corner is where the three sub-areas meet.

The most northerly point is Cape Londonderry and the most northerly place is Wyndham. The southernmost point is 'Torbay Head' and the southernmost point is Albany. The westernmost point is Steep Point and the westernmost point is Denham. The entire 1,862 kilometer long eastern border of Western Australia is the easternmost point and Eucla the easternmost point. The highest location at about 750 meters is the mining village of Tom Price and the highest mountain is the 1,249 meters high Mount Meharry in the Hamersley Mountains.

The 865 kilometers long Gascoyne and the 820 kilometers long Murchison are the two longest rivers in Western Australia. The largest lake, of which 80% is located in Western Australia and 20% in the Northern Territory, is 3,494 km² of Mackay Lake. The second largest lake is the 1,980 km² large 'Lake Barlee'. Western Australia is divided into a dozen administrative regions. There is the city region of Perth which is located on the west coast in the south. About three quarters of the total population of the state lives here.

The Aborigines have lived in western Australia for more than 40,000 years. The first Europeans probably arrived by accident, they were shipwrecked on their way to the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch seafarer Dirck Hartog was probably the first European to set foot ashore. In October 1616 he left a pewter plate with the inscription '1616 the 25th of October has arrived here', on the island in front of Shark Bay that now bears his name. Australia was then called New Holland. In 1696 Willem de Vlamingh landed on Dirk Harto Island, where he replaced the plate with a new one. He took back the old and this can now be seen in the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. However, this did not stop, the barren land was not commercially interesting.

Only in 1826 did the British claim the western part of the continent. They founded Fredrickstown, now Albany, and three years later the Swan River Colony, now Perth. The driving force behind the colonization of western Australia was James Stirling. The country had little to offer and the first settlers had a hard time. Explorations were undertaken in all directions from Perth. The early settlers tried to farm, grow sheep, and sell vegetables to American whalers, or to do whaling themselves. From the 1840s sandalwood was cut to market it in China and horses were bred for the Indies.

From 1850, Western Australia became a prisoner colony due to a lack of labor. They built roads and public buildings or were employed as workers in extensive livestock farming. Around 1870, income was also obtained from pearl fishing and from the felling of the enormous deciduous forests. The first railways were constructed to carry the wood. But the Western Australian population and economy only really began to grow after gold was found in the 1880s, first near Halls Creek, along the Murchison River, in the Yilgarn and Pilbara, and finally in the eastern goldfields.

Thanks to the gold rush, there was money to invest in public buildings, ports, education and public transport. CY O'Connor designed the port of Fremantle and, at the turn of the century, constructed a more than 500 km long water pipeline to Kalgoorlie. Thanks to this pipeline, the new drought-resistant grain variety 'Federation' and the introduction of superphosphates, agricultural development in the Wheatbelt region was made possible. During the First World War, about 10% of the population moved to the front. After the war, through Soldier Settlement Schemes and similar non-military programs in the southwest of the state, farms were started and a milk industry developed. The 1930s crisis brought innovation and grain was then shipped in bulk. The automobile started to advance and work was carried out on the road network.

Western Australian industrialization did not actually begin until World War II. Refineries and blast furnaces were started and weapons were produced. Returning soldiers after the war caused a boom in construction. However, the railway network was gradually phased out by the rise of the automobile. In the 1950s, agriculture in the south of the Goldfields-Esperance region became possible after it emerged that a shortage of trace elements in the subsoil could be addressed. In the 1960s, oil was found around Barroweiland and the pre-war ban on iron ore exports was lifted. From the 1980s, the Western Australian economy and prosperity began to seriously increase due to Asian economic growth and demand for raw materials and agricultural products. Since then, the state has been confronted with environmental problems. Salinization is occurring in agricultural areas and climate change is also being felt. In the dry areas there is more precipitation and in the wetter southwest there is less rainfall.

Western Australia is largely desert and semi-desert, including the Great Sand Desert in the north, the Little Sand Desert and the Gibson Desert in the center, and the Great Victoria Desert in the southeast. A small portion of the Tanami Desert is located in the northeast. There are also the Kimberley, a weathered plateau in the far north and the Pilbara, a rich mineral area in the west. The vast Nullarbor plain in the southeast is shared with South Australia.

The southwestern part of the state, consisting of the South West and Great Southern regions, consisted mainly of massive deciduous forests cleared for timber production and / or to create farmland in the 19th and 20th centuries. At the beginning of the 21st century, the landscape consists of remains of forest, agricultural land and orchards and vineyards. The landscape of the more northern and eastern Wheatbelt region and the southern part of the Goldfields-Esperance region consists mainly of wide plains with grain fields.

Western Australia is an important mining area. More than 1,000 mines are active and some 50 different minerals are extracted from the ground. In the 12 months to July 1, 2013, AU $ 102 billion in minerals, metals, and oil and gas was produced, and this was the third consecutive year that the value surpassed $ 100 billion. The main product is iron ore, in 2012-13, more than 500 million tons were exported, worth $ 56 billion. Petroleum products, including petroleum, LNG, natural gas condensate and LPG, were valued at $ 24 billion. Gold occupied third place with a value of $ 9 billion. The share of mining products in Western Australia's total exports was nearly 90% and was slightly less than half of Australia's total exports. Almost half of the goods go to China, followed by Japan with a fifth of Western Australian exports.