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The Tiwi Islands (Tiwi: Ratuati Irara meaning "two islands") are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, 80 km (50 mi) to the north of Darwin adjoining the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island , Bathurst Island , and nine smaller uninhabited islands, with a combined area of 8,320 square kilometres (3,212 sq mi).
The Tiwi people (or Tunuvivi [a]) are one of the many Aboriginal groups of Australia. Nearly 2,000 Tiwi people live on Bathurst and Melville Islands, which make up the Tiwi Islands, lying about 48 kilometres (30 miles) from Darwin. The Tiwi language is a language isolate, with no apparent link to the languages of Arnhem Land on the Australian ...
Aboriginal Australians have occupied the area that became the Tiwi Islands for at least 40,000 years. [5]On 5 May 1623, Willem Jootszoon Van Colster (or Coolsteerdt), in the ship Arnhem named the island De Speult Eylandt, in honour of Herman van Speult, Governor of Ambon, who had commissioned the voyage of exploration.
Wurrumiyanga (Nguiu) is the home of Tiwi Designs, [6] an art corporation (involving some 100 indigenous artists) which produces fabric, carvings, ceramics, print and paintings and whose aim is to promote, preserve and enrich Tiwi culture. [7] It is also home of the ground where Australian rules football is played and Tiwi Islands Football ...
Tiwi Designs (Tiwi Designs Aboriginal Corporation) is an Aboriginal art centre located in Wurrumiyanga (formerly Nguiu) on Bathurst Island (one of the Tiwi Islands), north of Darwin, Australia. It holds a notable place in the history of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement as one of the longest running Aboriginal art centres, having started ...
Pedro Wonaeamirri (born 1974) is a contemporary Aboriginal Australian painter, carver, printmaker, singer, dancer, and performer. [1] As a member of the Tiwi people, Wonaeamirri regards his art as both a continuation of Tiwi culture as well as an open-ended exploration of style and technique. [2]
Milikapiti was founded in the 1941 as the Snake Bay government aboriginal settlement. [4]In 1942, aboriginals from Snake Bay captured Australia's first Japanese prisoner of war, Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima, who crash-landed on Melville Island after his plane was damaged while bombing Darwin. [5]
Anne Marie Gardiner (born 18 June 1931) is a community and heritage advocate living and working on the Tiwi Islands of the Northern Territory of Australia for more than 50 years. She was named the Senior Australian of the Year in 2017.