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6 unusual facts about Mornington Island


Dahalo language

Dahalo is one of very few outside southern Africa to have phonemic clicks (the others being Sandawe and Hadza in East Africa and Damin, a mutually unintelligible register of Lardil, spoken mainly on Mornington Island in Australia).

Mornington Island

Penile subincision was traditionally performed on the island for those wanting to learn a complex ceremonial language called Damin.

Macassan trepangers once travelled thousands of kilometres from Sulawesi to Mornington Island and other Australian mainland destinations in search of sea cucumbers.

Penile subincision

This type of modification of the penis was also traditionally performed by the Lardil people of Mornington Island, Queensland.

Timeline of the 2008–09 Australian region cyclone season

:0000 UTC (1000 AEST) – TCWC Brisbane reports that Tropical Low 06U previously located near Mornington Island, has intensified into a Category One Tropical Cyclone and has been named as Cyclone Charlotte.

:0600 UTC (1600 AEST) – TCWC Darwin reports that Tropical Low 06U has formed near to Mornington Island within the Gulf of Carpentaria.



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