The Tiwi Islands (Tiwi: Ratuati Irara meaning "two islands") are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, 80 km (50 mi) to the north of Darwin adjoining...
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Tiwi /ˈtiːwi/ is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Tiwi people on the Tiwi Islands, within sight of the coast of northern Australia. It is...
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The Tiwi people (or Tunuvivi) are one of the many Aboriginal groups of Australia. Nearly 2,000 Tiwi people live on Bathurst and Melville Islands, which...
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Bathurst Island and nine smaller uninhabited islands, it forms part of the group known as the Tiwi Islands, which are under the jurisdiction of the Northern...
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factsheet: Seagull Island (Tiwi Islands). Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-05. "IBA: Seagull Island (Tiwi Islands)". Birdata. Birds Australia...
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The Tiwi Islands Region is a local government area (LGA) of the Northern Territory, Australia. The LGA covers an area of 7,483 square kilometres (2,889 sq mi)...
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in the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Rules football is the most popular sport on the Tiwi Islands. The Tiwi Islands Grand Final...
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Northern Territory capital and communities located on the Tiwi, South Goulburn and Croker islands, as well as a number of remote Arnhem Land communities...
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Hector (cloud) (category Tiwi Islands)
thundercloud cluster that forms regularly nearly every afternoon on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia, from approximately September...
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Bathurst Island (Iwaidja: Nguyu) (2,600 km2 or 1,000 sq mi, 11°35′S 130°18′E / 11.583°S 130.300°E / -11.583; 130.300) is one of the Tiwi Islands in the...
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archaeological site Tiwi, Northern Territory, a suburb of Darwin in Australia The Tiwi Islands, 80 km (50 mi) north of Darwin The Tiwi people, the inhabitants...
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remote Indigenous Australian communities of the outback such as the Tiwi Islands but also in the cities of Darwin and Alice Springs. There are more than...
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Group Tiwi Islands Vanderlin Island Wessel Islands Acheron Island Agnes Island Albino Rock Aplin Islet Arnold Islets Avoid Island Baird Island Barber...
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Maria Josette Orsto (section Tiwi Island Art)
was an aboriginal artist born at Pirlangimpi, on Melville Island (one of the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory). Her father, Declan Apuatimi, and...
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The Daly–Tiwi–West Arnhem statistical area surrounds metropolitan Darwin on all sides and is made up of four regional councils: Tiwi Islands, West Daly...
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arranged marriage in her homeland on the Tiwi Islands. While being chased by her relatives, she flees the island on a speedboat. In the present day, Daffy's...
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Wurrumiyanga (category Tiwi Islands)
promote, preserve and enrich Tiwi culture. It is also home of the ground where Australian rules football is played and Tiwi Islands Football League matches...
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year. There are a number of islands off the Top End coast including the Tiwi Islands (Bathurst Island and Melville Island), and Groote Eylandt as well...
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today includes the islands of Tasmania, K'gari (previously Fraser Island), Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, Kangaroo Island and Groote Eylandt....
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runs through the traditional Sea Country the Larrakia and Jikilaruwu Tiwi Islands clan, who have significant cultural connection to it as well a dependency...
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Tiwi, officially the Municipality of Tiwi (Central Bikol: Banwaan kan Tiwi; Tagalog: Bayan ng Tiwi) is a 1st class municipality in the Province of Albay...
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Fort Dundas (category Tiwi Islands)
contact between the colonisers and the indigenous people of the Tiwi Islands, the Tiwi people, during the first few weeks of the settlement. Bremer noted...
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living on the Tiwi Islands. It is one of four land councils in the Northern Territory. It was established following requests by the Tiwi people for recognition...
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team is affiliated with the Essendon Football Club, where two famous Tiwi Island products Michael Long and Dean Rioli played their football in the national...
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Pukumani, Tiwi Islands". The Australian Museum. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2020. "Being Tiwi: the work of 9 artists from the Tiwi Islands - Stories...
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2012). "Tiwi Islands (S)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 November 2024. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Tiwi Islands (R)". 2016...
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Australia's northern coastline in the 1600s and landed on the Tiwi Islands only to be repelled by the Tiwi peoples. The Dutch created the first European maps of...
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Robert Collins was born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory from a Tiwi Islands background. He worked with the National Indigenous Music Awards, and...
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Marion Scrymgour (category Tiwi Islands people)
daughter of Claire (née Mollomini) and Jack Scrymgour. Her mother was a Tiwi Islander, and her father had been forcibly removed as a child from his home...
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Tapatjatjaka CGC Thamarrurr Regional Council Timber Creek CGC Tiwi Islands CGC (now Tiwi Islands Region) Walangeri Ngumpinku CGC Wallace Rockhole CGC Watiyawanu...
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