Leg 504 YPGV Gove (Australia) to YBWP Weipa (Australia)
YPGV - Airport Info
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ICAO code: YPGV
Airport name: Gove
Location: Gove
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Gove Info
The Gove Peninsula is located on the east coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria within Arnhem Land, a vast tract of Aboriginal owned land on the Northern Territory coastline. The township of Nhulunbuy is the main commercial and service centre of the Peninsula and is 600 kilometres east of Darwin. Based on a 2004 NT Government Socio-Economic Snapshot, there is a population of 14,115 within the Gove Peninsula (East Arnhem Region), of which almost 64% are Indigenous people and a population of nearly 4,000 in Nhulunbuy, the majority being non-Indigenous people. Those people not living in Nhulunbuy live in surrounding communities and traditional homelands. It is interesting to note that in the five years to 2004, the population declined in Nhulunbuy and Groote Eylandt and increased in the non-urban areas. Nhulunbuy is a purpose built town developed by the former owner of Alcan Gove, a huge bauxite mine and alumina refinery 15 kilometres away. The town is built on a Special Purpose Lease on Aboriginal land and is now the largest town is East Arnhem Land, the fourth largest town in the Northern Territory and the administrative centre for the region. Gove Peninsula is a place of spectacular beauty with unspoilt coastline, wetlands rich in birdlife, lush green monsoon forests and vast tropical savannahs. Owned by the traditional Aboriginal owners, the Yolngu people, it is a place rich in culture with Yolngu maintaining strong ties with their land, religion and traditions.
YBWP - Airport Info
ICAO code: YBWP
Airport name: Weipa
Location: Weipa
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Weipa is the largest town on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Weipa had a population of 2,830; the largest community on Cape York Peninsula. It exists because of the enormous bauxite deposits along the coast. The Port of Weipa is mainly involved in exports of bauxite and cattle.