Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Mornington Island, also known as Kunhanhaa, is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. It is the northernmost and, at 1,018 km 2 (393 sq mi), [ 1 ] the largest of 22 islands that form the Wellesley Islands group.
The Mornington Island Mission was substituted by a community administration in 1978. [14] The Shire council in the 1970s introduced a beer canteen, government developmental funds were seen as allowing one to dispense with the necessity to work, and, as alcoholism spread, the Mornington Island peoples began to rank among the communities with the ...
Cape Schanck Lighthouse Cape Schanck aerial panorama. April 2024. Pulpit Rock at Cape Schanck. April 2024. Cape Schanck, or Tunnahan (Boonwurrung) is a locality at the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, approximately 72 km (45 mi) south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area.
The Lardil people, who prefer to be known as Kunhanaamendaa (meaning people of Kunhanhaa, their name for Mornington Island), are an Aboriginal Australian people and the traditional owners of Mornington Island. [11] The Lardil language (also known as Gununa, Ladil), is spoken on Mornington Island and on the northern Wellesley Islands. [3]
A dictionary and grammatical sketch of the language were compiled and published by the Mornington Shire Council in 1997, [12] and the Mornington Island State School has implemented a government-funded cultural education program incorporating the Lardil language. [13]
The town was founded in 1914 [6] as Mornington Island Community, and renamed by the Queensland Place Names Board on 16 January 1982. [2] Gunana or Gununa is a Lardil word. [6] Mornington Island State School opened on 28 January 1975. [7] Gununa Post Office was open by 1982. [8]
The 2,686-hectare (6,640-acre) national park is situated approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. Together with the adjacent Arthurs Seat State Park , the national park was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate , in recognition of their outstanding values and their importance as ...
Dick was born about 1920 on Langu-narnji Island, joined to Mornington Island by a sandbank at low tide, and part of the North Wellesley Islands group in the Gulf of Carpentaria. He was given the tribal name Goobalathaldin. His mother, Kuthakin, gave birth to him under a clump of Pandanus palms. [3]: 16 His father's name was Kiwarbija. Dick's ...