Yirrkala
- Local Government Area
- East Arnhem
- Postcode
- 0880
- Population
- 657
- Area
- 8.30 km²
- Coordinates
- -12.2476, 136.8839
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About Yirrkala
Yirrkala is a small community in East Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia, 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of the large mining town of Nhulunbuy, on the Gove Peninsula in Arnhem Land. It is known for the former mission, established as an Aboriginal reserve after being founded by Methodist missionaries in 1935, and for what became known as the Yirrkala bark petitions. These were a set of petitions submitted by the Aboriginal residents of the mission to the Australian Parliament in 1963 asking for consultation about their land taken for mining.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Nhulunbuy 14 km
- Gunyangara 20 km