A prominent indigenous community in Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land region, Yirrkala is situated 14.5 kilometres east of Nhulunbuy, and can be reached through a 1 hour and 14 minute flight east of the state capital of Darwin. Yirrkala is one of the nine remote villages serviced by the East Arnhem Shire local government area, which was established in 2008. The presence of the indigenous community in the area has been well-recorded since its earlier days, but it grew significantly in size since the foundation of the Yirrkala mission in 1935. The remote community has been given recognition for a number of reasons, mainly: It is the home of several indigenous artists whose award-winning traditional Aboriginal artworks have made it to art...
A prominent indigenous community in Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land region, Yirrkala is situated 14.5 kilometres east of Nhulunbuy, and can be reached through a 1 hour and 14 minute flight east of the state capital of Darwin. Yirrkala is one of the nine remote villages serviced by the East Arnhem Shire local government area, which was established in 2008. The
A prominent indigenous community in Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land region, Yirrkala is situated 14.5 kilometres east of Nhulunbuy, and can be reached through a 1 hour and 14 minute flight east of the state capital of Darwin. Yirrkala is one of the nine remote villages serviced by the East Arnhem Shire local government area, which was established in 2008. The presence of the indigenous community in the area has been well-recorded since its earlier days, but it grew significantly in size since the foundation of the Yirrkala mission in 1935. The remote community has been given recognition for a number of reasons, mainly: It is the home of several indigenous artists whose award-winning traditional Aboriginal artworks have made it to art galleries across the globe; it is also the traditional home of an indigenous wind instrument called didgeridoo; and it was instrumental in the development of the relations between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians when it created a bark petition in 1953.