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© Betty Meehan, Rhys Jones, Sally Brockwell, Betty Ngurrpangurrpa and the An-barra Community 2025
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Cover image: Aerial view of the mouth of An-gartcha Wana (Blyth River, NT) 1959 (NT Land Surveys Department).

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