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Monument Attractions In Kimberley Region

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The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts in the region of Pilbara, and on the east by the Northern Territory. The region was named after John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1870 to 1874 and 1880 to 1882.
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  • 1. Russian Jack Memorial Halls Creek
    Ivan Fredericks , known as Russian Jack , was a goldminer of the Western Australian gold rush in the 1880s. In 1885, while working in the Halls Creek goldmines, he pushed his sick friend in a wheelbarrow 300 km through the Great Sandy Desert to Wyndham, the nearest town with a medical centre. A statue was erected to him in Halls Creek. He is buried in Fremantle Cemetery While he may not be very well known in Russia, Russian Jack is a famous figure in Western Australia.The Peter J. Bridge work entitled Russian Jack claims the actual distance traveled to the nearest medical center was not 300 km but actually closer to 50 km.
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