Seisa/Red Island Point/Ithunchi
Seisia is Queensland's northernmost mainland community. It is one of five communities forming the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA). The coastal locality lies within a small DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust) area granted by the Queensland Government in 1986 at Red Island Point. It has a harbour used by supply vessels and ferry services for passengers and vehicles to Thursday Island.
The area, also known as Ithunchi, was a traditional camping site for the Oiyamkwi clan of the Anggamudi.
After the Queensland Government established a settlement at Somerset in 1864, diseases, exclusion from traditional hunting grounds, and the activities of the Native Mounted Police decimated the region's Indigenous population. By 1915, the remnants of the Yadhaigana, Wuthathi, Unduyamo, and Gudang people regrouped at Red Island Point, Cowal Creek, and Injinoo. An Aboriginal reserve was created in 1915 after the communities approached the government for land to establish gardens, and it became an Anglican mission and school in 1923.
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Thursday Island
Somerset
Cowal Creek
Injinoo
Unduyamo
