Wyndham is the northernmost town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 3,315 kilometres (2,060 mi) northeast of Perth via the Great Northern Highway.

Wyndham was established on 14 April 1886, by government resident and warden Charles Danvers Price,[6] who led a party including commissioner of crown lands John Forrest on the Adelaide Steamship Company mail steamer SS Albany.

[9][10] By late-1886, the town was booming and there were three hotels at the port, one of which was a two-storey building, and two taverns at Three Mile Camp, as well as stores, bootmakers' and butchers' shops, a billiard room, a soda water factory, commission agencies, auctioneers and other businesses.

Wyndham's significance as a service centre was crucial for the construction of the Ord River Diversion Dam and the town of Kununurra in the early 1960s.

The construction efforts were interrupted by the Nevanas affair and World War I, but the meatworks were completed in 1919 to a design by William Hardwick, who later became the Principal Architect of Western Australia.

The Bastion Range is the site of the 28-square-kilometre (11 sq mi) Wyndham Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds the largest known population of endangered Gouldian finches.

[21] The Centre was renamed on 29 May 2014 in honour of Pastor Edward "Ted" Birch, who was instrumental in helping establish a youth service in Wyndham.

The Hall was also an office and administration building for the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley and later a recreation space until it was converted into an art gallery in 1997.

[25] The Hall is now leased to a community group to support the conservation of the Gouldian finch, a rare and endangered bird species that live in the mangroves near Wyndham.

The nearby Bastion lookout provides sweeping vistas of the surrounding country, including the Durack, Pentecost, King, Forrest and Ord Rivers, which emerge into the Cambridge Gulf.

It was notable as the base for contemporary Indigenous Australian artists of the eastern Kimberley region, including Paddy Bedford and Freddie Timms.