Timber Creek Travellers Rest

Timber Creek, the only stopping point roughly halfway between Katherine to Kununurra on the Victoria Highway, is a town in transition. It currently has a population of less than 300.

The explorer Augustus Charles Gregory, who reached the area in 1855, named the site Timber Creek because it was here that his boat was wrecked and it was here that he cut some timber (melaleuca) to repair the hole in the vessel.Read more