Pirlangimpi
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{{Use Australian English|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type = town
| name = Pirlangimpi
| state = nt
| coordinates = {{coord|11|23|21.30|S|130|25|28.63|E|display=inline,title}}
| image = Garden Point mission.jpg
| image_alt =
| caption = Garden Point Mission
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| elevation = 22
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| timezone = ACST
| utc = +9.5
| dist1 = 3257
| location1 = Canberra{{cite web|url=http://www.ga.gov.au/cocky/cgi/run/distancedraw2?rec1=131&placename=Canberra&placetype=0&state=0&place1=PIRLANGIMPI&place1long=130.415237&place1lat=-11.406920|title=Great Circle Distance between Canberra and Pirlangimpi|publisher=Geoscience Australia|date=August 2020|access-date=5 August 2020|archive-date=19 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019005637/https://geodesyapps.ga.gov.au/distance?rec1=131&placename=Canberra&placetype=0&state=0&place1=PIRLANGIMPI&place1long=130.415237&place1lat=-11.406920|url-status=live}}
| postcode = 0822
| lga = Tiwi Islands Region
| county =
| stategov = Arafura
| fedgov = Lingiari
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Pirlangimpi, formerly Garden Point, is a populated place on Melville Island in the Northern Territory, Australia.{{cite web|date=10 January 2012|title=Name of Community Pirlangimpi (Garden Point)|url=http://www.nt.gov.au/health/remoterecruitment/communities/Community%20profile%20%20PIRLANGIMPI.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012050242/http://www.nt.gov.au/health/remoterecruitment/communities/Community%20profile%20%20PIRLANGIMPI.pdf|archive-date=12 October 2016|work=Department of Health (Northern Territory)|publisher=Northern Territory Government|accessdate=4 October 2016}}
History
Pirlangimpi lies {{cvt|2|km}} from the site of the first British settlement in northern Australia, the short-lived Fort Dundas. The present settlement, then called Garden Point, was established in 1937 as a police post, because of concerns about the activities of Japanese luggers.J. Pye, The Tiwi Islands, Kensington NSW, 1977, pp. 77–9. From 1937, "incorrigible natives" (Aboriginal people) had been sent to Garden Point from Darwin to be supervised by a "Control Officer".{{cite web| website= Find & Connect| url=https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/nt/YE00003| title=Garden Point Mission (1941-1969)| access-date=19 November 2021
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=Garden Point Mission=
In 1939 the newly established Native Affairs Branch started negotiations with various missions to assume responsibility for those children considered to be "half-caste" (part-Aboriginal) currently in the government reserves at Kahlin Compound in Darwin and The Bungalow in Alice Springs. It was decided that a Catholic mission would be established at Garden Point for these children.
Garden Point Mission (aka Melville Island Mission, Our Lady of Victories Mission, Pirlangimpi and Catholic Mission Melville Island) was founded by the Roman Catholic Missionaries of the Sacred Heart as a home for mixed-blood children, both local part-Japanese and those removed (stolen) from their families in other parts of the Northern Territory.[http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/mission/garden-point-melville-island-1940-1962 Garden Point, Melville Island 1940–1962] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022222739/http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/mission/garden-point-melville-island-1940-1962 |date=22 October 2016 }}; Thecla Brogan, ed, The Garden Point Mob, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1990. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart looked after the boys and the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart took care of the girls. Dormitories for boys and girls were completed by 1941, with the boys brought in first to help with the building work. There were 15 girls brought from the mainland, and another 14 transferred from the Bathurst Island Mission, all between 18 months and 14 years old. A school for children between 5 and 17 was established.
In 1942, after Darwin had been bombed, 41 children (mostly girls) were evacuated to Carrieton, South Australia, being returned in 1945–6.
Children of Aboriginal people suffering from leprosy at East Arm and Channel Island Leprosariums were brought to the mission from the 1930s to the 1960s, and other children were despatched there by the Welfare Branch.
The mission lease was not renewed in 1967, leading to the closure of the mission school in 1968, with the last of the children taken back to the mainland in 1969.
Australian Rules football was introduced by Brother John Pye of the Catholic mission.{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/comment/obituaries/siren-sounds-for-tiwi-islands-father-of-football-20090531-brpo|title=Siren sounds for Tiwi Islands' 'father of football'|date=1 June 2009|work=The Age|access-date=1 November 2016|archive-date=13 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113153236/http://www.theage.com.au/comment/obituaries/siren-sounds-for-tiwi-islands-father-of-football-20090531-brpo|url-status=live}} Three Norm Smith Medalists – Maurice Rioli, Michael Long and Cyril Rioli – were raised at the mission at Pirlangimpi.{{cite news|last=Toohey|first=Paul|author-link=|date=10 October 2015|title=Tiwi Islands community Pirlangimpi has produced three Norm Smith Medallists|work=Herald Sun|publisher=News Corp Australia|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/tiwi-islands-community-pirlangimpi-has-produced-three-norm-smith-medallists/news-story/b7f32fe76f246813155114d025d3d099|access-date=4 October 2016|accessdate=}}
Marjorie Liddy, who grew up on the mission, provided an image that was widely used in Pope Benedict XVI's visit to World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney.{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/marjorie-liddy-a-vatican-vip/story-e6frg6po-1111116892060 |title=Marjorie Liddy a Vatican VIP|date=12 July 2008|work=The Australian|accessdate=11 November 2016}}
Garden Point Mission was mentioned in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997), the result of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Stories of sexual abuse of boys, and trauma suffered by the children as a result of being removed from their families, emerged later, and in November 2021 the Commonwealth Government and the two churches involved issued a formal apology to the people affected. A class action was settled privately.{{cite web | last=Houlbrook-Walk | first=Myles | title=Survivors of Stolen Generations receive apology decades after abuse and torment at Tiwi Islands Catholic mission | website=ABC News| publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation | date=19 November 2021 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-19/garden-point-mission-stolen-generation-survivors-receive-apology/100631712 | access-date=19 November 2021}}
Facilities
{{as of|2016}} the community includes the Pularumpi primary school,{{citation|url=http://web.ntschools.net/w/tegs/Pages/Pularumpi.aspx|title=Pularumpi School|accessdate=30 October 2016|archive-date=30 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030201613/http://web.ntschools.net/w/tegs/Pages/Pularumpi.aspx|url-status=live}} a police station, small supermarket, club, health facility and airstrip.{{citation|url=http://www.rahc.com.au/sites/default/files/pictures/Pirlangimpi_RAHC%20Community%20Profile_Tiwi%20Region.pdf|title=Pirlangimpi|work=RAHC Community Profile: Pirlangimpi|accessdate=20 November 2016|archive-date=3 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303180539/http://rahc.com.au/sites/default/files/pictures/Pirlangimpi_RAHC%20Community%20Profile_Tiwi%20Region.pdf|url-status=live}} Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church is the base of the Melville Island parish.{{citation|url=http://ntcd.cimarketing.biz/aboriginal-communities/sub-pirlangimpi.htm|title=Melville Island parish|accessdate=30 October 2016|archive-date=31 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031085026/http://ntcd.cimarketing.biz/aboriginal-communities/sub-pirlangimpi.htm|url-status=live}}
Climate
Pirlangimpi has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with hot temperatures present year round. There are three seasons. The dry season, the buildup, and the wet season. The wet season typically runs from the end of October through April, though rainy days can be experienced during the dry season and the buildup.
| {{climate chart
| Pirlangimpi (Garden Point) | 23| 26| 516 | 23| 27| 354 | 22| 25| 364 | 21| 28| 106 | 20| 27| 74 | 19| 28| 4 | 18| 29| 1 | 19| 31| 1 | 21| 32| 13 | 22| 32| 52 | 23| 27| 140 | 23| 28| 224 |float=left |clear=left }} |
{{Weather box|location = Pirlangimpi Airport
|metric first = Y
|single line = Y
|Jan record high C = 36.4
|Feb record high C = 36.5
|Mar record high C = 36.7
|Apr record high C = 37.1
|May record high C = 35.9
|Jun record high C = 35.0
|Jul record high C = 35.1
|Aug record high C = 36.6
|Sep record high C = 38.3
|Oct record high C = 38.8
|Nov record high C = 38.6
|Dec record high C = 37.2
|year record high C =
|Jan high C = 32.1
|Feb high C = 32.0
|Mar high C = 32.4
|Apr high C = 33.0
|May high C = 32.8
|Jun high C = 31.6
|Jul high C = 31.6
|Aug high C = 32.5
|Sep high C = 33.7
|Oct high C = 34.1
|Nov high C = 34.0
|Dec high C = 33.2
|year high C =
|Jan mean C = 28.4
|Feb mean C = 28.3
|Mar mean C = 28.2
|Apr mean C = 28.1
|May mean C = 27.1
|Jun mean C = 25.3
|Jul mean C = 25.0
|Aug mean C = 25.8
|Sep mean C = 27.5
|Oct mean C = 28.6
|Nov mean C = 29.1
|Dec mean C = 29.0
|Jan low C = 24.8
|Feb low C = 24.6
|Mar low C = 24.1
|Apr low C = 23.2
|May low C = 21.5
|Jun low C = 19.0
|Jul low C = 18.5
|Aug low C = 19.1
|Sep low C = 21.4
|Oct low C = 23.1
|Nov low C = 24.2
|Dec low C = 24.9
|year low C =
|Jan record low C = 15.4
|Feb record low C = 20.0
|Mar record low C = 18.0
|Apr record low C = 15.7
|May record low C = 14.0
|Jun record low C = 10.5
|Jul record low C = 11.5
|Aug record low C = 10.0
|Sep record low C = 14.3
|Oct record low C = 18.2
|Nov record low C = 17.6
|Dec record low C = 21.0
|year record low C =
|rain colour = green
|Jan rain mm = 414.2
|Feb rain mm = 374.8
|Mar rain mm = 331.9
|Apr rain mm = 192.0
|May rain mm = 22.7
|Jun rain mm = 0.9
|Jul rain mm = 1.8
|Aug rain mm = 3.2
|Sep rain mm = 22.2
|Oct rain mm = 79.0
|Nov rain mm = 182.2
|Dec rain mm = 361.2
|Jan rain days = 20.9
|Feb rain days = 20.0
|Mar rain days = 21.3
|Apr rain days = 13.4
|May rain days = 3.9
|Jun rain days = 0.6
|Jul rain days = 0.8
|Aug rain days = 1.0
|Sep rain days = 3.1
|Oct rain days = 8.1
|Nov rain days = 14.8
|Dec rain days = 19.0
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References
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{{Localities and communities of the Tiwi Islands Region|state=collapsed}}
Category:Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory