Milikapiti is a village on the northern coast of
Melville Island,
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
,
Australia
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. At the
2011 census, Milikapiti had a population of 447.
It is by air from
Darwin.
Fly Tiwi airlines fly twice daily to and from Darwin servicing Milikapiti. The flight takes approximately 25 minutes.
The day-to-day management of the Milikapiti community is the responsibility of the Tiwi Islands Regional Council.
History
Milikapiti was founded in 1941 as the Snake Bay government aboriginal settlement.
In 1942, aboriginals from Snake Bay captured Australia's first
Japanese prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a ...
, Sergeant
Hajime Toyoshima, who crash-landed on Melville Island after his plane was damaged while bombing
Darwin. The
Snake Bay Patrol was also formed from local Indigenous Australians during World War II.
Community services and facilities
* Store and Take Away
* ATM facilities
* Post Office facilities
* School and Pre School
* Recreation Hall
* Basketball court
* Football oval
* Library
* Centrelink agency
* Women's Centre
* Health Centre
* Club (open 4.30pm – 7.30pm 4 days per week)
* Public Garage
* St Monica's Catholic Church
* Museum
* Jilamara Arts and Crafts
Notes and references
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Towns in the Northern Territory
Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory
Tiwi Islands
1941 establishments in Australia