Roebourne Lookout

Roebourne is the oldest settlement between Geraldton and Darwin - the one isolated community on the whole vast and lonely coastline which is now the Kimberley and Pilbara. It was once the administrative centre of the North-West.

Mount Welcome Lookout-
The lookout offers an excellent overview of the town and the surrounding countryside. In recent times it has included the silhouette statues of six Aborigines all with spear in one hand and standing on one leg. A plaque titled A View of Our Land explains: "Each of these six statues represents one of the immediate neighbours of the Ngarluma people and they are facing toward their country. These tribes reside in and around Roebourne and stand respectfully alongside the Ngarluma traditional owners of the land on which you are now standing. Each statue is looking toward their homeland. Tindjibarndi people are our immediate neighbours to the south, their lands commencing at the Chichester Ranges. Immediately south of their border, starting at the Hamersley Range are the Banyjima people. Our southernmost neighbours are the Kurrama people. The Taburara people are our neighbours to the northwest and the Martathunira people are our neighbours to the west. To the east our neighbours are the Kariyarra. Their respective boundaries with Ngarluma country are the Maitland River to the west and the East Peawah River to the east."Read more