Arnhem Land

American  

[ahr-nuhm] / ˈɑr nəm /

Or Arnhemland

noun

1. a region in northern Northern Territory, Australia: site of Aboriginal reservation.

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Arnhem Land British  

noun

1. a region of N Australia in the N Northern Territory, large areas of which are reserved for native Australians

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Arnhem Land

“The silence was deafening,” said Alastair King, the head of the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, or A.L.P.A., a nonprofit organization that operates the Lajamanu store and others in remote communities.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

The series featured the Nawarddeken people of West Arnhem Land, Australia, who have been carrying out the practice for tens of thousands of years.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022

Born in 1952, he currently lives in Maningrida, an indigenous community of about 2,000 people in Arnhem Land, on the continent’s north coast, facing Indonesia.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2018

Ecologist Mick Brand and meteorologist Costijn Zwart of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, abseil a boat into a 40-metre sinkhole in Arnhem Land to investigate the area’s geological record.

From Nature ● Apr. 24, 2018

Arnhem Land, a portion of the northern territory of S. Australia, lying west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and forming a sort of peninsula.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various