Welcome to Maningrida
Maningrida is one of the largest Aboriginal towns in the Northern Territory. It is situated approximately 500km east of Darwin in Arnhem Land, at the mouth of the Liverpool River.
A permanent settlement was established there in the late 1940s, originally as a trading post with Aboriginals in the area, and this was converted into a mission during the 1950s. According to the Northern Territory Place Names Committee, the name Maningrida is an Anglicised version of the Kunibídji name Manayingkarírra, which comes from the phrase Mane djang karirra, meaning "the place where the Dreaming changed shape." These days, the town is the major service centre for the region, with a school, health clinic, multiple food outlets and two supermarkets, service station, arts centre, creche, and a tarmac airport, with commercial flights operating daily to Darwin. Small-scale tourism ventures, including cultural tours and fishing expeditions, operate out of Maningrida. Apart from the town's population of approximately 2300, Maningrida also services about 30 outstations or homelands in the region. . |
Maningrida CollegeManingrida College offers primary, secondary and remote schooling to the predominantly Indigenous community in the Maningrida area.
The school consists of 200-300 students with 95% identifying as Indigenous Australians. There are several languages spoken within the region:
Please click here for more information on Aboriginal languages spoken in the Northern Territory or view the file to the right for a language map of the Northern Territory. |
References:
Maningrida College. (2015). Maningrida College Arnhem Land, Nt. Retrieved 26 September 2015 from http://www.schools.nt.edu.au/maningrida/2012/
West Arnhem Shire Council. (2015). Maningrida. Retrieved 26 September 2015 from http://westarnhem.nt.gov.au/maningrida/
Maningrida College. (2015). Maningrida College Arnhem Land, Nt. Retrieved 26 September 2015 from http://www.schools.nt.edu.au/maningrida/2012/
West Arnhem Shire Council. (2015). Maningrida. Retrieved 26 September 2015 from http://westarnhem.nt.gov.au/maningrida/