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Mapoon

Mapoon community is situated on the traditional lands of the Tjungundji people.

Mapoon Mission was established under the name Batavia River Mission. Within a few years the mission became known as Mapoon, a Tjungundji word meaning  ‘place where people fight on the sand-hills’.   Mapoon is also known as Marpuna.  Some of the traditional owner groups who eventually came to live at Mapoon included the Mpakwithi, Taepithiggi, Thaynhakwith, Warrangku, Wimarangga and Yupungathi people.

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