Wurrumiyanga
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Wurrumiyanga (), formerly Nguiu (, ), is a community on the southern coast of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia. With about 1,600 residents, it is the largest community on the island. There are regular ferries and flights between Wurrumiyanga and Darwin, as well as a ferry that connects Wurrumiyanga with nearby Melville Island. The Tiwi Islands Football League, an Australian rules football competition, hosts most of its games in Wurrumiyanga.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in NT, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, Australian Aboriginal missions and Catholic Church in the Northern Territory.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Tiwi Islands Region
- Population
- 1421
- Capital of
- Tiwi Islands Region
- Shares border with
- Tiwi Islands
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- located in/on physical feature
- Bathurst Island
- native label
- Wurrumiyanga
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Wurrumiyanga (), formerly Nguiu (, ), is a community on the southern coast of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia. With about 1,600 residents, it is the largest community on the island. There are regular ferries and flights between Wurrumiyanga and Darwin, as well as a ferry that connects Wurrumiyanga with nearby Melville Island. The Tiwi Islands Football League, an Australian rules football competition, hosts most of its games in Wurrumiyanga.
== History == Nguiu was founded in 1911 as a Catholic mission by Francis Xavier Gsell.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wurrumiyanga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations