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  2. Bathurst Island (Northern Territory) - Wikipedia

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    Bathurst Island was depicted as Mission Island in the 2008 Baz Luhrmann film Australia. In the film, Japanese infantrymen land on the island; however, the presence of Japanese troops on the island is entirely fictional, as no such landing by the Japanese was made during World War II. [9]

  3. Mission Beach, Queensland - Wikipedia

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    Mission Beach is a coastal town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 2021 census , the locality of Mission Beach had a population of 1,014 people. [ 1 ]

  4. Tiwi Islands - Wikipedia

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    The mission was established by Gsell on Bathurst Island in 1911. [citation needed] A timber church built in the 1930s is a prominent landmark in Wurrumiyanga. [16] The Catholic mission had positive impacts, through access to education and welfare services, but also negative effects through the suppression of Aboriginal language and culture. [22]

  5. Bombing of Darwin - Wikipedia

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    The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, [4] on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. [5] On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin Harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java ...

  6. Croker Island - Wikipedia

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    Croker Island is an island in the Arafura Sea off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia, 250 km (160 mi) northeast of Darwin. It was the site of the Croker Island Mission between 1940 and 1968.

  7. Pirlangimpi - Wikipedia

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    There were 15 girls brought from the mainland, and another 14 transferred from the Bathurst Island Mission, all between 18 months and 14 years old. A school for children between 5 and 17 was established. [7] In 1942, after Darwin had been bombed, 41 children (mostly girls) were evacuated to Carrieton, South Australia, being returned in 1945–6 ...

  8. Melville Island (Northern Territory) - Wikipedia

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    Melville Island (Tiwi: Yermalner) is an island in the eastern Timor Sea, off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia.Along with Bathurst Island and nine smaller uninhabited islands, it forms part of the group known as the Tiwi Islands, which are under the jurisdiction of the Northern Territory in association with the Tiwi Land Council as the regional authority.

  9. Masson Island - Wikipedia

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    Masson Island is located in the western part of Mawson Sea at and has an elevation of 465 metres (1,526 Masson Island was discovered in February 1912 by the Australian Antarctic Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson , who named it for Professor Sir David Orme Masson of Melbourne , a member of the Australian Antarctic Expedition Advisory Committee.

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