Tunnel Creek is a creek

Stream

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 located within the grounds of Tunnel Creek National Park

Tunnel Creek National Park

Tunnel Creek National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, northeast of Perth and east of Broome. The natural cave through which Tunnel Creek flows is a major attraction of the park....

 in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia

Western Australia

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. Along with Geikie Gorge

Geikie Gorge

Geikie Gorge is a feature of the Napier Range and is located within the grounds of Geikie Gorge National Park, 20 km from Fitzroy Crossing, 1831 km northeast of Perth and 420 km east of Broome in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia...

 and Windjana Gorge

Windjana Gorge

Windjana Gorge is a gorge in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is located at , within the Windjana Gorge National Park.The gorge was formed by the Lennard River having eroded away a section of the Napier Range...

, Tunnel Creek is part of an ancient barrier reef

Barrier reef

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 that developed during the Devonian Period. Tunnel Creek is located 63 kilometres from the Great Northern Highway, between Derby

Derby, Western Australia

Derby is a town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Derby had a population of 3,093. Along with Broome and Kununurra, it is one of only three towns in the Kimberley to have a population over 2,000...

 and Fitzroy Crossing, and was created by waters from a creek that cut a 750 metre tunnel

Tunnel

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 through the reef. The tunnel is 15 metres wide and up to 12 metres high. Tunnel Creek was also the hideout for the Aboriginal

Indigenous Australians

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 bushranger Jandamarra

Jandamarra

Jandamarra or Tjandamurra , also known as "Pigeon", was an Indigenous Australian of the Bunuba people who led one of the few organised armed insurrections documented against European settlement in Australia.- Background :...

, also known as Pigeon, who was killed there by police in 1897.