Umbakumba

Umbakumba
State :  Australia State : Northern Territory Founded : 1938
Coordinates : 13 ° 52 ′  S , 136 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 13 ° 52 ′  S , 136 ° 49 ′  E Area : 6.9  km²
Residents : 503 (2016) Population density : 73 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : ACST (UTC + 9: 30) LGA : East Arnhem Region
Umbakumba

Umbakumba is an Aboriginal settlement on Groote Eylandt , 650 kilometers east of Darwin , 13 kilometers from Angurugu and 50 kilometers from mainland Australia .

history

Groote Eylandt has been inhabited by the Anindilyakwa Aborigines for a long time . The Aboriginal settlement of Umbakumba was founded in 1938 as a base for sea ​​cucumber fishing and the Qantas flying boats . During the Second World War , the bay in front of the site and the site for the Royal Australian Air Force's flying boats were used for military purposes . After the World War, the place was a mission station of the Church Missionary Society until its closure in 1966. The Australian government then took over the station.

In 1948, the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land camped at the place for 14 weeks.

When the Groote Eylandt Mining Company began to mine one of the largest manganese ore deposits in the world on Groote Eylandt in 1964 , numerous Aborigines found employment in mining, which produces around three million tons of ore annually.

Groote Eylandt was named an Aboriginal freehold land in 1976 and an Indigenous Protected Area in 2006.

population

14 clans of the Anindilyakwa live on Groote Eylandt Indigenous . The traditional owners of the Umbakumba area are the Mamarika clan.

In 2016, 503 residents were counted. 96% of them were Aboriginal and 37% were under 20 years old. The Aborigines of Groote Eylandt speak Anindilyakwa and English; in Umbakumba some speak the Yolngu Matha .

Groote Eylandt is administered by the Anindilyakwa Land Council , which is subject to the regulations of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 .

Umbakumba has a school with 7 full-time teachers for an average of 55 students.

Web links

• Local Implementation Plan Umbakumba (PDF; 4.5 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Umbakumba (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} eastarnhem.nt.gov.au : Umbakumba , in English, accessed on January 26, 2013
3. ↑ teaching.nt.gov.au: Umbakumba (English) ( Memento from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )