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Nguiu:
- Bathurst Island |
Centre: |
Julinamawu Health Centre |
Location: |
80km North of Darwin on the south
east corner of Bathurst Island |
| Category: |
| Student and GPR |
Population: |
1450 |
Major Language Groups: |
Tiwi and English |
Air: |
To Darwin: 25 minutes |
Seasonal Accessibility: |
All year by air. |
Description: |
Bathurst Island lies 80 km to
the north of Darwin across the Beagle Gulf and covers an area of
2 600 sq. km. The home of the Tiwi for thousands of years the island
was first sighted by Europeans in 1644 when Abel Tasman passed by
on his way from Batavia. In 1818 Phillip Parker King, the son of NSW Governor Philip Gidley King, explored the island and named it after Lord Bathurst. King sailed between Bathurst and Melville Islands and was the first European to discover the dangers of the changing tides in the narrow Apsley Strait. The history of Bathurst Island took a fascinating turn with the arrival of German missionary and bishop Francis Xavier Gsell. Born in Alsace-Lorraine and educated in Rome, Gsell was a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. He traveled to Sydney in 1897 and by 1906 was the Apostolic administrator of the Northern Territory. |
| In 1910 Gsell persuaded the South Australian government
to give him 10 000 acres of land on Bathurst Island to build a mission
for the Aborigines |
| In 1978 the ownership of Bathurst Island was formerly handed back to the Tiwi people and today the island is run by the Tiwi Land Council. It is said that the word 'Tiwi' means 'people; we, the people; or, perhaps, we, the chosen people'. Certainly the Tiwi people are different in both their culture and personality to mainland Aborigines |
| Accommodation: |
 Approach to Nguiu Bathurst Island |
Facilities: |
Store, take away, post office,
junior & senior school, commonwealth banking agency, police
aides (no officers), Ulinjinni Association and Social Club, CDEP
scheme operating |
Contact Details: |
| Dr Penny Roberts Thomson |
| Dr Peter Chilcott |
| C/- Julinamawu Health Centre Puti Drive, Nguiu Bathurst Island NT 0822 |
| Ph: 08 8978 3984 Fax: 08 8978 3906 |
| Links: |
| www.tiwiart.com/index.html |
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