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The Crocodile Islands Maringa IPA was declared in 2023. [3] The area consists of mangroves, mudflats, coastal floodplains, monsoon forests, eucalypt forests, shallow seas and reefs that are home to 44 threatened species [4] and some of northern Australia's biggest aggregations of shorebirds, including great knots. [1]
The islands were formed by stabilising sea levels 5000 years before present. They were discovered by the Dutch in the seventeenth century and named the Crocodils Eÿlandt . Several of the Crocodile Islands, with their associated mudflats , have been identified by BirdLife International as forming the Milingimbi Islands Important Bird Area (IBA ...
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is a third-person 3D platformer in which the player controls the main character, a green crocodile named Croc, through several courses taking place on various islands throughout Gobbo Valley. There are over seven realms.
Northern Territory senior Australian of the Year 2012, Laurie Baymarrwangga, was the senior djungaya (manager) of Milingimbi Island. She was awarded the 2011 Northern Territory Innovation and Research Award for her projects, including the development of a Yan-nhaŋu Dictionary (1994–2012) and her work with the Crocodile Islands Rangers.
Cassius, the world’s largest saltwater crocodile in captivity, has died.The 18ft Australian crocodile, who lived on Green Island in the Great Barrier Reef, was thought to be more than 110 years old.
Laurie Baymarrwangga (Gawany) Baymarrwaŋa (c. 1917 – 20 August 2014) was the senior Aboriginal traditional owner of the Malarra estate, which includes Galiwin'ku, Dalmana, Murruŋga, Brul-brul and the Ganatjirri Maramba salt water surrounding the islands and inclusive of some 300 other named sites. [1]
Sometime after 1600 the annual arrival of Maccassan sailors harvesting trepang (bech de mer) changed the timings and patterns of Yan-nhangu people's seasonal movements around the Crocodile Islands. The arrival of the Methodist mission to the island of Milingimbi in 1922 attracted large numbers of eastern of kin to settle permanently on the Yan ...
Crocodile Island is a 2020 Chinese action monster film directed by Xu Shixing and Simon Zhao, and starring Gallen Lo as a single father who lands on a crocodile island with his daughter (Liao Yinyue) due to a plane malfunction and must battle with beast-sized creatures inhabiting the island.