City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Yiwarra Kuju, the Canning stock route, National Museum of Australia

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Yiwarra Kuju, the Canning stock route, National Museum of Australia
Main title
Yiwarra Kuju
Responsibility statement
National Museum of Australia
Sub title
the Canning stock route
Summary
The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south
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