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What does this mean? It's not a city.. Ozdaren (talk) 12:46, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As a result of this edit [1] the history section is very incomplete - I copy the previous history below -which may provide help when sourcing a better section.:
Yolngu have made this country home for at least 50,000 years. Their history is told in their dances, songs, stories and rock art. Their stories tell of creation ancestors who had adventures across the country forming the land formations, plants, rocks, oceans, animals, people and law. The law determines every aspect of life, from social obligations and religion to land ownership and responsibility. The earliest record of contact with outsiders was with the Macassan traders from the 16th century on. They were from Eastern Indonesia and visited Arnhem Land every wet season. For over three hundred years they collected and processed sea slugs for trade with China. They traded objects such as metal knives, tobacco and cloth with Yolngu any many Yolngu words, songs and dances encompass influence from these Macassan traders. The first recorded contact with Europeans was in 1623 when William van Colster led an exploratory voyage for the Dutch. He named Cape Arnhem after his ship, which was named Arnhem. Several other explorations took European visitors fleetingly to this region, but it wasn’t until Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia, that the coast of Arnhem Land was detailed on a chart. Flinders recorded coming across a Macassan Fishing Fleet just north-west of the Gove Peninsula on the English Company’s Islands. The start of the 20th Century saw the end to Macassan trade when the South Australian Government refused to allow the trade with the introduction of legislation to protect Australia's "territorial integrity".
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