The coastline around Broome contains the most diverse collection of dinosaur tracks in the world, dating back 130 million years. At low tide, you can spot footprints from 21 different dinosaur species, including 1.7-metre-long sauropod prints.

The Kimberley region is an absolute wilderness giant. Spanning over 422,000 square kilometres, it is roughly three times the size of England and larger than the entire state of Victoria.

Located in Talbot Bay, the Horizontal Falls are a bizarre natural phenomenon. Massive tidal shifts force water through narrow mountain gorges, creating the illusion of a waterfall rushing completely flat across the ocean.

Broome is the pearl cultivation capital of the world. The local Cygnet Bay Pearls Showroom displays the world’s biggest pearl. It is the finest quality round pearl, measuring over 22mm. Valued at over $1 million, the owners refuse to sell it.

Built in 1916, Sun Pictures in Broome’s Chinatown is the oldest operating open-air picture garden in the world, where you can still watch films from canvas deck chairs under the stars.

The Kimberley is home to some of the oldest and most extensive rock art on the planet, including the famous Wandjina and Gwion Gwion (Bradshaw) paintings, which date back tens of thousands of years.

For a few nights between March and October, the full moon rises over the low-tide mudflats of Roebuck Bay, creating a perfect optical illusion of a glowing golden staircase stretching right up to the moon, known as the Staircase to the Moon.

Because of its remote location in Australia’s northwest corner, Broome is actually geographically closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney.

Pearl meat—the adductor muscle of the Pinctada maxima pearl oyster—is a rare local delicacy in Broome. It is highly prized by chefs and retails for up to $200 per kilogram.

The first recorded European to land on Broome’s shores was explorer William Dampier in 1688. Legend says he buried a treasure chest somewhere on Buccaneer Rock in Roebuck Bay that has never been found.

The phrase “Broome Time” is a recognized local concept. It describes the intentionally slow, unhurried, and relaxed pace of life that both locals and travelers slip into the moment they arrive.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.

A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

An albatross can sleep while it flies!

A roach can live up to nine days without its head.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.

The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.

A single average cloud weighs around one million tonnes.

Trees talk to one another using an underground fungal network often called the “Wood Wide Web”.

The world’s very first website, created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991, is still online today and contains basic instructions on how the World Wide Web works.

There is a massive, mostly submerged continent called Zealandia beneath the Pacific Ocean, with New Zealand being its highest visible peaks.

The continent of Australia drifts north toward Asia by about seven centimetres every single year, roughly the same speed that human fingernails grow.