Peppimenarti

History

In the early 1970s, the independent Aboriginal organisation Unia campaigned for the establishment of a cattle station within the Daly River Aboriginal Reserve as a permanent home for the local Ngangikurrunggurr people. As a result, a pastoral lease was granted, and later consolidated by the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976. Harold Wilson, a prominent member of Unia, was instrumental in the community's establishment. Wilson was born in Peppimenarti country, and after being removed from his family and sent to government institutions as a child, he decided to return there as an adult with his wife Regina Pilawuk Wilson and family, to set up a permanent settlement. He later became the President of the Peppimenarti Association and used his Aboriginal and European heritage to negotiate the ‘translation of Aboriginal needs into European contexts while preserving authentic Aboriginal voices in the decision making process’.

Most-observed species

• Magpie Goose

  Anseranas semipalmata (Latham, 1798) · Aves
  1,333
• Water Buffalo (Feral)

  Bubalus bubalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  22
• horse

  Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  12
• wild boar

  Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  7
• Black-necked Stork

  Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  5
• Bluestem

  Andropogon gayanus Kunth · Liliopsida
  5
• Australian Rocket Frog

  Litoria nasuta (Gray, 1842) · Amphibia
  3
• western honey bee

  Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 · Insecta
  1

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2008-02-06
  93 km N of Wadeye, Australia