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	Melville Island, Northern Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Together, Melville Island and Bathurst Island are known as the Tiwi Islands.
		The two Australian islands are still occupied by the same Aboriginal groups as before the arrival of the Europeans.
		The population of Melville and Bathurst Islands ( 1996) was 2,033 of whom 93.8% were Aboriginal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bathurst_Island,_Northern_Territory (247 words)

	Walkabout - Bathurst Island
		Bathurst and Melville Islands are known as the Tiwi Islands.
		Bathurst Island lies 80 km to the north of Darwin across the Beagle Gulf and covers an area of 2 600 sq.
		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.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NTBathurstIsland.shtml (589 words)

	Bathurst Island - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Bathurst Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut Territory, Canada.
		Bathurst Island was the site of Thule native tribes around 1000 AD, conceivably during a warmer climate episode.
		Bathurst Island became known to Western explorers through its discovery by Sir William Parry in 1819 and was named for Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1812 - 1827.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Bathurst_Island (194 words)

	TIWI ISLANDS
		The Tiwi Islands consist of Bathurst Island and Melville Island.
		In 1911 Nguiu, which is the main settlement on Bathurst Island was founded as a Catholic mission.
		Bathurst Island is also where the majority of the Tiwi live, heading back to Melville only once a year for a few weeks.
	www.australianexplorer.com /tiwi_islands.htm (209 words)

	Even a cyclone can't stop the footy - Northern Territory -
		For the populations of Bathurst and Melville islands (the Tiwi Islands, 100 kilometres north of Darwin), football is one of their "religions", the others being kinship, Catholicism and art.
		Football has been played in the islands since 1930, when the first ball was an old leather football case stuffed with rags.
		In front of the church the tempting waters of Apsley Strait, separating Bathurst Island from Melville Island (Australia's second-largest island, after Tasmania), are off limits due to the crocodiles and stingers.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Northern-Territory/Even-a-cyclone-cant-stop-the-footy/2005/03/19/1111086063413.html (846 words)

	Melville Island - Northern Territory - www.smh.com.au/travel/
		In 1644 Abel Tasman became the first European to officially sight the island although he incorrectly assumed that it was part of the northern coast of Australia.
		It has long been thought that the wild buffalo which exist on the island were feral versions of buffalo brought by the Fort Dundas settlers.
		Like Bathurst Island in 1978 the ownership of Melville Island was formally handed back to the Tiwi people and today the island is run by the Tiwi Land Council.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Northern-Territory/Melville-Island/2005/02/17/1108500201646.html (590 words)

	Australian and NT Governments to build new clinic for Tiwi people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Australian and Northern Territory Governments have announced funding for a new health clinic for the Tiwi people on Bathurst Island in the Northern Territory.
		The Northern Territory Health Minister, Peter Toyne, said Territory Health has worked with the Tiwi Island Community Consultation Group on the design and would undertake project management of the clinic redevelopment and meet the ongoing repairs and maintenance costs.
		The Northern Territory Government will contribute $350 000 to the clinic and pay for ongoing costs estimated to be $800 000 a year.
	www.health.gov.au /internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/health-mediarel-yr2004-ta-abb012.htm (463 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 151 - Bishop Francis Xavier Gsell MSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born in the French province of Alsace in 1872, Gsell trained for the priesthood in France and Italy and was ordained in 1896.
		He gained government approval for the establishment of a mission on Bathurst Island in 1911, and lived on the island as head of the mission from that time until 1938.
		Attempts to introduce Christianity to the Aboriginal residents of the island were only moderately successful, but Gsell did influence a modification to the local culture by intervening in the practice of young teenage girls being sold into marriages with the old men of the community.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS151.html (708 words)

	Bathurst Island: the Tiwi Islands, NT
		Bathurst Island: the Tiwi Islands, NT Bathurst Island Catholic Mission was established in 1911.
		The French Father Gsell, objecting to the marriage practices of the local Tiwi people whereby young girls were married to older men, took as many as 150 of them as "wives", where they were taught domestic skills by nuns in the convent.
		The island has a beautiful coastline, with wide beaches where large sea turtles lay their eggs, ammonite fossils embedded in the sandstone rocks at Mukanuwu, weird rock formations like Rocky Point, and a wonderful waterfall and pool at Tumwarripi.
	www.ozoutback.com.au /postcards/postcards_forms/tiwi_bathurst_is/index.htm (232 words)

	NORTHERN TERRITORY - SHIPWRECKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Two significant events in the Northern Territory, and indeed it was a political terrirory if Australia until it obtained self-government in 1978, were to leave many Australia dead, and put dozens of vessel on the seabed.
		The native chief of the island said the barque had been on the reef for four or five weeks and those on board had left in the boats, steering in a westerly direction.
		Another version claimed she called at the island of Baba where the crew made fun of one of the native girls, and were subsequently murdered by the natives, then the brig was run ashore and burned.
	oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /nt-wrecks.html (5084 words)

	Melville Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		island in the Timor Sea, 16 miles (26 km) off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
		It is divided from Bathurst Island (west) by the narrow Apsley…
		It is separated from Melville Island (southeast) by the Kellett and Fitzwilliam straits and from Banks Island...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9051931 (692 words)

	ReadyFoot: Bathurst Island
		Island in the Timor Sea, Northern Territory, Australia, separated from Melville Island to the east by Apsley Strait.
		Densely wooded, it is triangular and has an area of about 1,000 square miles (2,600 square km).
		The island was explored in 1818 by Phillip Parker King, who recommended it for European settlement, and was named after the 3rd Earl Bathurst, secretary for war and the colonies
	readyfoot.blogspot.com /2004/02/bathurst-island_25.html (83 words)

	Tiwi Islands Local Government - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The beautiful Tiwi Islands are situated 80 km north of Darwin in the Arafura Sea.
		There are two islands, Bathurst Island and Melville Island with a total land mass of 8320 sq km.
		Tiwi Islands Local Government was established on 12 July 2001, when the previous community government councils in the three main communities of Nguiu (Bathurst Island), Pirlangimpi and Milikapiti (Melville Island) and Wurankuwu Aboriginal Corporation were amalgamated to begin a new era of united and coordinated local government.
	www.tilg.nt.gov.au (144 words)

	Matilda Minerals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The exposed northern and western coastlines of Bathurst Island, and northern coastline of Melville Island, totalling 250 kilometres, are considered, from previous exploration, highly prospective for mineral sands.
		The Tiwi Islands are covered with zircon and rutile enhanced Tertiary sandstone, which forms scarps along the north and west coasts.
		Eight sections at Puwanapi (on Bathurst Island) were also drilled, with resulting HM assemblages containing elevated zircon and rutile.
	www.matildaminerals.com /tiwi.htm (952 words)

	Island Explorer - Northern Territory Mothership Barra Fishing Charters - Darwin - Australia
		Popular areas include the Tiwi Islands, the Perron Islands and Daly River mouth, Coburg Peninsular and the blue water north and west of Bathurst Island.
		Island Explorer carries four well set up dinghies and our professional guides will show you the best of remote creek and estuary fishing.
		Island Explorer is fully air-conditioned with 4 twin cabins, spacious galley and saloon area.
	www.islandexplorercharters.com (319 words)

	AusEmade: Islands Map, Northern Territory (NT), Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		West of the Northern Territory is Western Australia, to the south is South Australia, and to the east is Queensland.
		Please note that this is not a definitive list of islands in the Northern Territory, if we have missed any, please feel free to email us the additions.
		Bathurst Island • Barron Island • East Vernon Island • Endyalgout Island • Field Island • Greenhill Island • Karslake Island • Melville Island • Morse Island • NW Vernon Island • Seagull Island • SW Vernon Island • Tiwi Islands (Bathurst and Melville)
	www.ausemade.com.au /nt/resource/map/northern-territory-island.htm (268 words)

	Investigations begin into Bathurst Is claims » ABC Northern Territory » Local News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Northern Territory police are investigating reports that four Indonesians have arrived, possibly illegally, on Bathurst Island.
		A local Bathurst Island man made the report to police early this morning, but initial investigations have not been able to verify his claims.
		Police say they are looking into the possibility that the four people arrived on Bathurst Island from a boat that recently left Darwin.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/nt/news/200404/s1085476.htm (111 words)

	POWERCORP : Case Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nguiu on Bathurst Island is perhaps the largest remote community in the Northern Territory.
		The Commander system at Nguiu at Bathurst Island runs unmanned 24 hours a day with a reporting system installed to notify the operator of a problem via his fax and mobile phone, should the station detect a fault.
		The client is also very happy with the system and has full remote control, monitoring and data retrieval ability from any of their of.
	www.pcorp.com.au /2004_cs/cs_nguiu.shtml (549 words)

	Northern Territory Government of Australia - Media Releases - BABY BARRA BOUND FOR BATHURST ISLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Northern Territory Government of Australia - Media Releases - BABY BARRA BOUND FOR BATHURST ISLAND
		today, as part of the latest shipment being transferred to the Territory’s first commercial caged barramundi farm.
		“The Territory Government supported the project through a capital grant and the expansion of Darwin Aquaculture Centre, to ensure it could provide barramundi fingerlings to the Port Hurd farm.
	www.nt.gov.au /ocm/media_releases/2004/20040227_barra.shtml (348 words)

	Aussie Adventure Holidays, Northern Territory Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tours designed for a wide cross section of travellers extend to all major destinations and concentrate on ecotourism aspects, photographic opportunities, leisure activities such as swimming, bushwalking, wildlife watching and soft adventure and local cruises and scenic flights.
		Activities are in Australia’s Northern Territory exploring the Top End and extending to the Central Australian destinations of Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, Olgas and Kings Canyon and the Kimberley to Broome including the Bungle Bungles.
		The Tiwi Island of Bathurst Island offer one and two day camping tours introducing the visitor to the friendly Tiwi Aboriginal communities who delight in the opportunity to introduce their culture and environment to visitors.
	www.ntgetaways.com /darwin/aah/aah.htm (496 words)

	Munupi Fishing Guides Melville Island Northern Territory Australia
		Michael was born and bred in the Territory, and has spent most of his life at Pirlangimpi.
		Until quite recently he was in charge of the Local and quite rightly famous Pirlangimpi Bakery, which distributes daily bread across the settlements of the Tiwi People.
		David has also spent most of his life on the island, and from an early age has been hunting and gathering for food and for fun all over the twin islands of Bathurst and Melville.
	www.munupiwildernesslodge.com /guides.html (426 words)

	1972 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		September 17 - Uganda announces that there are Tanzanian troops in its territory.
		October 1 - Peter Brock wins the first of nine victories at the Hardie Ferodo 500 motor race at Bathurst.
		This was also the final 500 mile race, the 1973 race being the first Bathurst 1000 kilometre race after Australia adopted the SI (metric) system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1972 (3740 words)

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		Clark, M.R. and Dingwall, P.R. Conservation of islands in the Southern Ocean: a review of the protected areas of Insulantarctica.
		Long narrow island (5 by 35 km), undulating plateau at 200-300 m consisting of an eroded horst volcanic block of Miocene/Pliocene age, formerly glaciated, now no permanent ice; coastal cliffs; several lakes; gravelly loam soils on plateau, acid peat soils elsewhere
		Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata (Norfolk Island Boobook owl) endemic subspecies, Endangered, only one remaining bird, a female (1989) [2 male New Zealand Morepork Owls introduced as possible mate in 1987] Turdus poliocephalus poliocephalus (Gray-headed Blackbird, Island Thrush) endemic subspecies, Endangered (RDB), less than 50 on Mt. Pitt in 1969, a couple of birds seen in 1989.
	islands.unep.ch /IJA.htm (602 words)

	Australia photocd produced by Corel
		69036 - Tiwi Aboriginal "Pukamani" Grave - Melville Island.
		69059 - Signpost - Tennant Creek, Northern Territory.
		69062 - Windmill - Barrow Creek, Northern Territory.
	www.emsps.com /photocd/corel/69000.htm (696 words)

	AusEmade: Islands of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Australia has several islands that are larger than 1,000 square kilometres.
		The World’s largest sand island is Fraser Island.
		Australia is sometimes referred to as the ‘island continent’.
	www.ausemade.com.au /group/i/islands2.htm (121 words)

	About Munupi Wilderness Lodge Melville Island Northern Territory
		It is strategically situated on the outskirts of Pirlangimpi, an Historic Aboriginal Tiwi settlement that can trace its history back hundreds of years prior to the settlement of Fort Dundas.
		The locals enjoy TV Radio fax and Internet connections, and are only twenty minutes by air from Darwin, the Northern Territory's capital city.
		The local Tiwi people are a friendly law abiding community; delightful to talk to, as they tell their stories, and of their history.
	www.munupiwildernesslodge.com /about.html (364 words)

	Bathurst Island on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), Northern Territory, N Australia, near Melville Island, between the Timor and Arafura seas.
		The island is a reservation owned by the Tiwi people.
		NT: Early inspections suggest Bathurst Island had lucky escape
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BathrstI1A1us.asp (257 words)

	Bathurst Island - Northern Territory - www.smh.com.au/travel/
		Darwin on track to a boom in tourist numbers
		The adventure comes with plenty of jokes in a country that's a lot like Australia used to be, David Sygall writes.
		Home > Travel > Australia > Northern Territory > Article
	www.smh.com.au /news/Northern-Territory/Bathurst-Island/2005/02/17/1108500201592.html (680 words)

	Bathurst Island - Northern Territory - Reviews of Bathurst Island - TripAdvisor
		Avoid the summer tourists and head for one of these quieter Australian islands.
		Find out about other Northern Territory attractions !
		Explore our site to find travel information and unbiased reviews on Northern Territory tourism, hotels, maps and much more.
	www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g255062-d261442-Reviews-Bathurst_Island-Northern_Territory.html (346 words)

	Nothern Territory - Bathurst Island - Independent Travel Idea - Goway Travel Experiences
		Day 1 Darwin to Bathurst Island - Your two day Bathurst Island tour commences with a scenic flight to Bathurst Island.
		Here you will be met by your guide to be taken on a journey through the progressive community of Nguiu.
		Alcohol can not be taken to the island.
	www.goway.org /downunder/australia/nt/nt_ab_topend_bathurst.html (228 words)

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