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	Arnhem Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arnhem Land is an area of 97,000 sq.
		Its administative centre is the town of Nhulunbuy, the fourth-largest population centre in the Northern Territory.
		Arnhem land is notable for its Aboriginal rock-art, at Ubirr Rock and in the Canon Hill area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arnhem_Land (227 words)

	Walkabout - Arnhem Land
		Arnhem Land is an area of 97 000 sq.
		Thus the Aborigines of the region, who have lived in Arnhem Land for at least the last 25 000 years, tend to live near the coast where fish are abundant and life is relatively easy.
		During the dry season, and with the appropriate documentation from the Northern Land Council, it is possible to drive into Arnhem Land.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NTArnhemLand.shtml (660 words)

	Western Arnhem Land Didjeridu Styles
		The didjeridu of western Arnhem Land is used as a patterned drone which varied according to song type and to the singer's place of residence.
		Western Arnhem Land singers either inherit their songs from their fathers and older male relatives, or they 'dream' them for themselves.
		A Western Arnhem Land singer prefers to select the pitch of his didjeridu accompaniment to match his song.
	www.rdrop.com /~mulara/wal.html (1196 words)

	Encyclopedia of Australia: Arnhem Land Region@ HighBeam Research
		Arnhem Land is made up of the entire north-eastern half of the Top End of the Northern Territory, beyond Kakadu National Park.
		The Arnhem Land Aboriginal Land Trust owns and manages the site and, except for one town, it cannot be visited without special permission.
		The only part of Arnhem Land the public can visit without obtaining a permit is Nhulunbuy at the north-eastern tip.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:29435123&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (212 words)

	truk - trips - australia - bodeidei camp, arnhem land
		Arnhem Land is a very difficult place to visit.
		The stone escarpments in Arnhem Land are raw, scraped rock, aged and burnt by sun and fire for generations.
		The termite mounds in Arnhem Land are smaller than in Kakadu and Litchfield, and they show the brilliant red clay soil of the land, especially during sunrise or sunset.
	www.truk.com /trips/sydney/20020719_arnhemLand.php (1116 words)

	North Central Arnhem Land Didgeridoos \| iDIDJ Australia
		On its western border is the Western Arnhem Land region, a vast area that is linguistically and culturally diverse.
		To the east is north-east Arnhem Land otherwise known as the Yolngu cultural bloc.
		The didgeridoo in north central Arnhem Land is played with the overtone, but unlike the dense rapid fire effect that is utilised in north-east Arnhem Land, the overtone tends to be slower and deliberately sustained.
	www.ididj.com.au /exhibitions/ncal.html (340 words)

	Western Arnhem Land Didgeridoos \| iDIDJ Australia
		Western Arnhem Land is a large and culturally diverse area.
		The didgeridoo is commonly known as mago in Western Arnhem Land.
		The greatest proponent of the mago was a Western Arnhem Land didgeridoo player by the name of David Blns* (name obscured out of respect due to his recent death).
	www.ididj.com.au /exhibitions/wal.html (333 words)

	Tropical Savannas CRC - Arnhem Land - Grazing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the border of Arnhem land near the Roper River between 1882 and 1885 Elsey, Hodgson Downs, Valley of the Springs and Urapunga stations were stocked.
		To the west of Arnhem land, Fisher and Lyons had taken out a lease on the entire area from the Adelaide River to the East Alligator River.
		The Arnhem Land Reserve was set up in 1931 and this act ensured that settlement within the region was only open to those with spiritual rather than commercial ends in mind: the missionaries.
	savanna.ntu.edu.au /information/al/al_gr.html (752 words)

	Arnhem Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arnhem Land covers nearly 100,000 square km, with spectacular scenery, wildlife and aboriginal art.
		Arnhem Land is on of the finest wilderness areas in Australia.
		Arnhem Land is located east of Kakadu National Park which constist of 20,000km of World Heritage listed wildeness, Kakadu is also the largest National Park in Australia.
	www.australianrainbowfish.com /NT_AL_wilson/arnhem_land_map_text.htm (88 words)

	Chippindale & Taçon, Dating Arnhem Land rock-art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arnhem Land (Berndt and Berndt 1954) is a large region on the central north coast of Australia, a block of land some 400 km east—west by 250 km north—south.
		In Arnhem Land, there is no certainty either that ochre was used for painting from the beginning; or that painting with ochre was on rock surfaces (rather than on perishable subjects); or that the first paintings on rock surfaces are amongst the ones that survive.
		Unstated in much of the Arnhem Land literature is the fair starting premiss that at any one period, a coherent range of subjects would be depicted with a coherent manner of depiction – the entities combined in the idea of a 'style', and the expectations that the styles will form a chronological series.
	www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /Projects/Chip/Chip206.htm (10546 words)

	Encyclopedia: Arnhem Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Northern Land Council (NLC) is in the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia.
		Maningrida is a self-governing indigenous community in the heart of the Arnhem Land region of Australias Northern Territory.
		The Gove Peninsula (12°17′ S 136°49′ E) is at the northeastern corner of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arnhem-Land (518 words)

	AllRefer.com - Arnhem Land, Australia & New Zealand (Australian And New Zealand Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Arnhem Land, Australian And New Zealand Political Geography
		Arnhem Land, 37,100 sq mi (96,089 sq km), N Northern Territory, Australia, on a wide peninsula W of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		The great majority of the region belongs to the Arnhem Land Aboriginal Reserve, the largest aboriginal reservation in Australia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/ArnhemLa.html (211 words)

	Arnhem Land prints: Page 1
		Arnhem Land is a region in which Aboriginal artists have been active during the 1990s in exploring the opportunities offered by print making techniques.
		More information about these communities is in the Arnhem Land communities section.
		The subject of the Rainbow Serpent is associated with Lofty's clan lands in the headwaters of the Liverpool river.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /aboriginalprints/arnhem-pr.php?type=1&local=1 (860 words)

	Arnhem Land Rock Paintings
		Paintings by Najombolmi, one of the last major rock-painters of western Arnhem Land, such as these from Nourlangie, Kakadu National Park, are one of many focal points of our Arnhem Land rock-art study.
		In 2000, a new interpretation of the region's oldest rock paintings featuring human figures was published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.In 2001, a paper was published on the worldwide incidence of composite creatures, including animal-headed beings, with a focus on those found in old Arnhem Land rock-art.
		These are the latest of a series of focused works that will eventually allow comparison to other art forms in northern Australia and contribute to a new regional prehistory, to be published as a monograph in the near future.
	www.austmus.gov.au /anthropology/research/arnhem.htm (174 words)

	Arnhem Land -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The region was named by (British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)) Matthew Flinders after the Dutch ship Arnhem which explored the coast in 1623.
		Arnhem Land also contains the (Click link for more info and facts about Gove Peninsula) Gove Peninsula on its north east corner.
		Gove is the site of large scale (A clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst) Bauxite mining with an associated (Any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum) Alumina refinery.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/arnhem_land.htm (286 words)

	Tropical Savannas CRC - Arnhem Land - Plants and Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The major blip on the relatively flat landscape of the north of the Northern Territory is the sandstone plateau of western Arnhem Land, which is bissected by these two regions.
		Notwithstanding the traditional land management practices of much of the area's Aboriginal population, many areas are now very rarely visited and suffer from the effects of a fire management vacuum.
		In some parts of Arnhem Land, this accountability for looking after the land has led to the formation of local area based Aboriginal ranger corps, charged with land management and supported by the local communities and grants from some federal and Territory agencies.
	savanna.ntu.edu.au /information/al/al_pa.html (777 words)

	Arnhem Land Northern Territory travel guide - Australian Tourism Net
		Arnhem land covering 94,000 square kilometres, is home to around 16,000 people.
		The Gove Peninsula, situated at the far north east end of Amhem Land, is one of the last true wildernesses with sandy beaches, great fishing anf diving and an abundance of flora and fauna.
		The main center of the Gove Peninsula is the township of Nhulunbuy which was a mining town but today is the administrative center for the Arnhem Land region with a population of 3500.
	www.atn.com.au /nt/north/arnhem.htm (290 words)

	Kava use in Arnhem Land,
		Late in 1981, a group of Australian Aboriginal men from a coastal community in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, visited Fiji where for the first time they drank kava, a psychoactive substance that had long been used throughout Pacific communities both as a ritual drink and for secular recreation.
		The Northern Territory (NT) occupies approximately one-sixth of the land mass of Australia, yet its enumerated population of 154,848 recorded in the 1986 census amounted to less than one per cent of the Australian total.
		Alexander (1985, 19) states that the cost of purchasing a kilogram of powdered kava from Sydney and landing it in an Arnhem Land community was about $30; however, one leading Sydney importer of Fijian kava claimed to be supplying kava at $13.50 per kilo plus freight (d’Abbs, 1990a:8).
	www.drugtext.org /library/articles/912407.htm (4335 words)

	Arnhem Land Northern Territory Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This vast tract of nearly 100,000 sq km of Aboriginal owned land is one of Australia’s last strongholds of traditional Aboriginal culture.
		Peninsula by road please note all Arnhem Land is Aboriginal land and visitors require permits to enter.
		The earliest history of eastern Arnhem Land is recorded in the paintings, dances and songs of the Yolngu, the Aboriginal people of the region, which tell of creation ancestors bringing lands and waters, people, animals and plants into being and laying down the Law that governs them all.
	www.ealta.org /arnhemland.html (252 words)

	Northern Territory Kakadu And Arnhem Land Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nhulunbuy and Yirrkala are the main town centres in Arnhem Land.
		This led to the first major legal action over land rights and although the Yolngu case was lost, it led to the introduction of the 1976 Northern Territory Land Rights Act.
		Under this Act, Arnhem Land was returned to its Aboriginal owners along with other traditional lands in the Northern Territory.
	www.discoveraustralia.com.au /explore_by_state_northern_territory_kakadu_and_arnhem_land.html (880 words)

	Arnhem Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arnhem Land is a culturally strong, remote, and pristine environment.
		Yolngu (Aboriginal) people solely own Arnhem Land and have lived in this region for at least 60,000 years with recognised land and marine estates.
		East Arnhem Land is one of the last wilderness areas on earth, yet all services can be found in the town of Nhulunbuy, located on the Gove Peninsula approximately 750 kms by road from Katherine and home to about 4000 people.
	www.tourismtopend.com.au /region/arnhem.htm (496 words)

	Manikay.Com - Songs Of Arnhem Land, 1966
		The main groups in residence were the Gunavidji, Nagara, and Burara ("Burara" is a term originally used by people in eastern Arnhem Land for two groups who knew themselves as "Gidjingali" and "Gunadba".), but also present were numbers of Gunbalang, Gunwinggu, Gungoragoni, Janjango, and Djinang.
		Side A is eastern Arnhem Land camp music of the Blyth River area; most of side B is western Arnhem Land camp music of the Liverpool River area (although, as I shall explain later, the opening song is eccentric).
		The first three tracks on this side record songs typical of western Arnhem Land, which are sung largely for entertainment around the camp fire.
	www.manikay.com /albums/songsofarnhemland.shtml (2483 words)

	Arnhem Land Accommodation Holiday Rentals NT Australia
		Stays features premier Arnhem Land Accommodation in all areas on the Arnhem Land.
		Arnhem Land is part of the Northern Territory region which also includes Alice Springs, Arnhem Land, Ayres Rock, Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Top End, Central, Kakadu, Rapid Creek, Howard Springs, Nightcliff, Renner Springs.
		To view individual Arnhem Land properties, check the calendar and initiate a booking request, click on the BROWSE button.
	arnhemland.stays.com.au (515 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Arnhem Land tropical savanna (AA0701)
		The rugged sandstone massif of western Arnhem Land is the major topographic feature in an otherwise largely subdued landscape.
		Aboriginal Land Trusts hold most of this region as inalienable tenure, and many parts of the ecoregion are managed in ways reflecting the more than 40,000 years of continuous occupation by these peoples.
		Most notably, land has been cleared for horticultural production in the vicinity of Darwin, some relatively minor clearing has occurred for strip-mining in north-eastern Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt, and there is some plantation forestry of exotic tree species on Melville Island.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0701_full.html (2674 words)

	Arnhem Land Accommodation - Seven Spirit Bay Wilderness Lodge
		Arnhem Land Accommodation - Seven Spirit Bay Wilderness Lodge is a multi award winning wilderness and adventure destination.
		The unique lodge is situated in Aboriginal Arnhem Land on the Cobourg Peninsula, the most northern tip of the Northern Territory, surrounded by the pristine wilderness of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park including the Cobourg Marine Park.
		A special permit is required to enter this traditional Aboriginal Land, to experience its special beauty and extraordinary adventures with a select few.
	www.ozstays.com /3578 (516 words)

	Top End and Arnhem Land Seasons (January, February)
		Known as "Barra" amongst the peoples of Arnhem land, the monsoon slowly builds in strength over the Timor Sea, then rolls as a dense blanket of fl cloud to engulf the red cliffs of Merlville Island.
		A welcome relief from fierece heat now floods the land, and in these months of monsoon the sun might not be seen for weeks on end.
		The relentless monsoon rains now fill the the Arnhem land plateau and once again Kakadu National Park is flooded - the rivers and waterways at a roar.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /regions/topend7.php (445 words)

	Kakadu National Park - Arnhem Land - Northern Territory Official Travel Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jabiru serves as a touring centre for the unspoiled wetlands of the nearby Mary River National Park, which is home to millions of birds and plentiful barramundi.
		Arnhem Land, which lies to the east of Kakadu National Park and the Arnhem Land escarpment, encompasses 91, 000 square kilometres and is home to many Aboriginal people, most of whom continue to practice their traditional way of life.
		Those wishing to visit Arnhem Land need to apply for a permit from the Northern Land Council.
	www.travelnt.com /regions/kakadu/region_kakadu_sur.htm (211 words)

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