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    Yirrkala is a small community in East Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia, 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of the large mining town of Nhulunbuy...
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  • as the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre and Museum, is an art centre in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is often referred...
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  • The Yirrkala bark petitions, sent by the Yolngu people, an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, to the Australian Parliament...
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  • Yirrkala kaupii is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1858, originally under the genus Sphagebranchus...
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  • Yirritja moiety. He became a senior cultural leader of the Gumatj clan in Yirrkala, in Arnhem Land, and was one of the most significant painters of his time...
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  • Apozomus yirrkala is a species of short-tailed whip-scorpions, also known as schizomids, in the Hubbardiidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was...
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  • Yirrkala calyptra is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker in 2011. It is a marine, tropical eel which...
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  • Yirrkala moluccensis is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1864, originally under the genus Pisoodonophis...
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  • Yirrkala maculata is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Wolfgang Klausewitz in 1964, originally under the genus Caecula...
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  • Yirrkala ori is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker in 2011. It is a marine, subtropical eel which...
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  • Yirrkala is a genus of eels in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It is named after Yirrkala, an indigenous community in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory...
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  • Yirrkala gjellerupi is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber and Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort...
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    Hall of Fame in 2012. In 1989 Yunupingu became assistant principal of the Yirrkala Community School and was principal for the following two years. He helped...
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  • Yirrkala macrodon is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Pieter Bleeker in 1863, originally under the genus Sphagebranchus...
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  • Callechelys maculatus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Chu Yuan-Ting, Wu Han-Lin and Jin Xin-Bo in 1981. It...
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  • barge.” After a long journey Narritjin Maymuru finally made it back to the Yirrkala mission alive. Narritjin Maymuru died suddenly in 1981 of a heart attack...
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  • Yirrkala chaselingi, known commonly as the chingilt in Australia, is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Gilbert Percy...
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  • The Yirrkala blind snake (Anilios yirrikalae) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family. Shea, G.; McDonald, P.; Fenner, A. (2018). "Anilios yirrikalae"...
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  • Yirrkala moorei is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker in 2006. It is a marine, tropical eel which...
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    A sign showing a "Kava licence area" at Yirrkala, in the Northern Territory of Australia...
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  • Yirrkala insolitus is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by John E. McCosker in 1999. It is a marine, tropical eel which...
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  • 9th AACTA awards, for her portrayal in The Nightingale. She was born in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory of Australia and belongs to the Yolngu community...
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  • The Misol snake eel (Yirrkala misolensis) is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Albert Günther in 1872, originally...
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  • Yirrkala fusca is an eel in the family Ophichthidae (worm/snake eels). It was described by Vasily Zuyev in 1793. It is a marine, tropical eel. Synonyms...
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    proficiently playing the didgeridoo. In 1995, musicologist Steve Knopoff observed Yirrkala women performing djatpangarri songs that are traditionally performed by...
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  • of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land sent two bark petitions to the Australian government to protest the granting of mining rights on their lands. The Yirrkala Bark...
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    1970s as a mining town for bauxite. Other major population centres are Yirrkala (just outside Nhulunbuy), Gunbalanya (formerly Oenpelli), Ramingining,...
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    education programs in the NT include Yirrkala Community Education Centre (CEC) and Shepherdson College on Galiwin'ku. Yirrkala School and its sister school ignored...
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  • Caecula kuro (redirect from Yirrkala kuro)
     kuro Binomial name Caecula kuro (Kuroda, 1947) Synonyms Aphthalmichthys kuro Kuroda, 1947 Sphagebranchus kuro (Kuroda, 1947) Yirrkala kuro (Kuroda, 1947)...
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  • to be taught to paint miny'tji (sacred clan designs). She attended the Yirrkala mission school, afterwards working in the mission store and craft shop...
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