Today when leaving lunch at the Pump House restaurant (an actual pumping station in the day) we found evidence on this historic timeline ( see image above) of Steinberg's Kimberley Plan and specifically his vision to irrigate the Ord River Valley. A bit hard to read on this plexi-glass so I'll transcribe: "1939: The Freeland League, seeking land to resettle European Jews threatened by the rise of Nazism produced the first plan to realize the Ord irrigation scheme by damming the Ord River. The proposal is well received by the Western Australia government but not the Commonwealth."
This was our first day in Kununurra which is a town of about 6000 people and was not in existence during Steinberg's visit to these parts in 1939. However, as the plaque explains, Steinberg was prescient in proposing the irrigation of the Ord River and he made photos of the river on his tour which I've used in the Museum model for our VR world.
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