Wurrumiyanga
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 Bathurst Island Mission on the 1944 topographic map sheet |
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Wurrumiyanga (formerly called Nguiu ) is an Aboriginal community on the southeastern tip of Bathurst Island in the Northern Territory , Australia . It is the largest place on the island with about 1,600 inhabitants.
reachability
The island is part of the Tiwi Islands and is located in the Arafura Sea . The place on Bathurst Island is separated from mainland Australia by the Apsley Strait and about 80 kilometers from Darwin . It can be reached by air at the airport, which is about a kilometer away, or by boat. Access is only possible with permission.
history
Nguiu was founded in 1911 as a Catholic Aboriginal mission station by Francis Xavier Gsell .
The Nguiu Post Office opened on June 3, 1974 on Bathurst Island; it was the first on the island.
today
2010 Nguiu was the Tiwi Land Council rededicated in Wurrumiyanga, which means the place to grow on the encephalartos (Engl .: the place where the cycads grow ).
The settlement has sports facilities such as a football stadium, basketball field and swimming pool, a Catholic school, a health center and a supermarket.
Web links
- Entry in the Place Names Register of the Northern Territory
- Police on Nguiu ( Memento of March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Wurrumiyanga (Nguiu) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
- ↑ a b ntmojos.ingenous.gov.au ( memento of April 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ): MOJOs from Wurrumiyanga , in English, accessed on February 23, 2013
- ^ FX Gsell: The Bishop with 150 Wives , Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1956, Ch. 3.
- ^ NT Place Names Register . Northern Territory Government. Retrieved April 7, 2011.