page_title: Broome, Western Australia
section_title: Sport and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Broome, Western Australia / Sport and recreation
caption_attribution_description: English: Sun Theatre Broome
context_page_description: Broome, traditionally known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal, pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 1,681 km north of Perth. The urban population was 14,445 in June 2018 growing to over 45,000 per month during the peak tourist season.
context_section_description: Broome hosts a lawn bowling club and a golf club. The town also has four Australian rules football clubs; Broome Bulls Football Club (established 1949) the Broome Saints, Towns and Cable Beach all competing in the West Kimberley Football Association with games played at Haynes Oval.
  Four Association Football clubs compete in the local Broome Soccer Association's BLiga competition each dry season. FC Meatworks, Pearlers, Racing G and Broome Town field sides across men's and women's divisions.
  Broome is also home to the Sun Picture Garden, the oldest operating open-air cinema in the world.
  Broome is considered to be among the best places in the world to catch Sailfish.
caption: Sun Pictures building
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