Nauiyu Nambiyu is an Aboriginal community in the

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of the

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. The settlement was originally founded in the 1950s as a Roman Catholic mission on Mulluk-Mulluk aboriginal land. It is located on the banks of the large perennial Daly River, near the town of

Daly River, Northern Territory Daly River is a town adjacent to the Daly River in the Northern Territory of Australia. At the 2006 census, Daly River had a population of 468. The town is part of the Victoria Daly Region local government area. The area is popular for recr ...

, and located 230 km from Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.

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