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Bremer Island, or Dhambaliya in the local language is an island in the Arafura Sea, in the northwest of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 3.4 km off the northeast corner of Arnhem Land (Cape Wirawawoi), Northern Territory, Australia. History
The island was named Melville Island by Matthew Flinders during his circumnavigation voyage in 1803. The island was renamed Bremer Island in 1934 to avoid confusion with the larger Melville Island, part of the Tiwi Island Group just north of
Darwin. A
European settlement named Fort
Dundas had been established on the larger Melville Island in 1824 by Sir James J.
Gordon Bremer, but
the settlement was unsuccessful and was abandoned in 1828.
Geography
It is 7.7 km long north–south, and up to 3.0 km wide, and has an area of about 16 km2. The town of
Nhulunbuy lies five kilometers away on the mainland of Arnhem Land. The island is inhabited by about 25 Rirratjingu, a clan of the Yolngu tribe. The only small settlement, a family outstation in the north of the island near the airfield is called Gutjangan (formerly Bremer Island North).