- Tiwi Facts
- The Tiwi Islands are part of Australia's Northern Territory, 100 km north of Darwin where the Arafura Sea joins the Timor Sea. They comprise Melville Island and Bathurst Island, with a combined area of 8,320 square kilometres (3,212 sq mi).
- Tiwi History
- The first European settlement on the Islands was at Fort Dundas, near present-day Pirlangimpi on Melville Island. Established in September 1824, this was the first British settlement in northern Australia, but owing in part to the hostility of the Indigenous population it lasted only five years, being abandoned in 1829. As the first attempted European and military settlement anywhere in northern Australia, the site is on Australia's Register of the National Estate.
Tiwi Islands Shire Council
Wurrumiyanga Bathurst Island
08 8970 9500 phone
08 8970 9555 fax
Pirlangimpi Melville Island
08 8970 9600 phone
08 8970 9666 fax
Milikapiti Melville Island
08 8978 3958 phone
08 8970 3995 fax