Kimberley - a region in the Northern Territory covering more than 420,000sq km, the Kimberley is commonly described as Australia’s last frontier. Divided by ranges and seasonally huge rivers, it is a wilderness of marginal cattle stations and small, isolated Aboriginal communities, with a ragged, tide-swept coastline inhabited chiefly by crocodiles. The extreme seasons and harsh terrain make access slow and difficult - for those who live here, light aircraft are a necessity rather than an indulgence. Several national parks protect the area, including the Windjana Gorges and the Prince Regent River, which has been designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Notable features are the Fitzroy River and the Geikie Gorge carved by the river; the coastal township of Broome, world famous for its pearling industry; Cable Beach, which extends for 24km along a turquoise sea; and the Buccaneer Archipelago, or 'Thousand Islands'.

Kimberley Basin - the area is separated from the Pilbara Block by the Phanerozoic Canning Basin. The Palaeoproterozoic Kimberley Basin is surrounded to the south-west and south-east by the Halls Creek and King Leopold Mobile Belts and by the coast to the other sides. The basin hosts mostly undisturbed sedimentary rocks with some lava flows that were intruded by dolerite dykes. Kimberley Basin succession has been divided into three generally conformable groups - Speewah, Kimberley and Bastion. The Speewah Group is characterized by red feldspathic arenite of fluvial to shallow-marine origin derived praobably from the eastern rising land of Halls Creek Mobile Belt. The Kimberley Group consists of mature sandstone alternating with red siltstone and basalt with minor dolomite and it occurs uniformly throughout the basin. Bastion Group rocks are similar to those of Kimberley Group and show similar north to north-west palaeocurrent directions and shallow-marine conditions of deposition. The sedimentary layers are slightly deformed throughout the basin. The deformation is particularly pronounced adjacent to the mobile belts. Near the junction of King Leopold Mobile Belt and Halls Creek Mobile Belt, to its north around Mount House area and to the east of Halls Creek Mobile Belt (East Kimberley) Neoproterozoic succession is exposed in small patches. It contains the characteristic glacigenic tillite beds and cap dolomite beds.

Kimberley disease - a usually fatal disease of horses in which liver damage occurs (from the Kimberley Range, WA).

Kinchega National Park - one of the outback's oldest and best known national parks. Here the arid outback environment gives way to waterside tranquillity with the Darling River and several ephemeral lakes. Evidence of life is everywhere; waterbirds thrive in its backwaters and flooded woodlands and the park is rich in both Aboriginal and European cultural history. You can explore the park’s Aboriginal sites, as well as its European relics, such as the Kinchega Woolshed. Car-based or caravan camping is available at the rest area near Lake Cawndilla, beside Emu Lake or along the river. You can also stay in the old wool shearers’ quarters.