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Named after the ship of Captain Willem van Colster; the ship was named after the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arnhem Land
Today it means: An historical region of 97,000 sq. km in the north-eastern corner of the Northern Territory, Australia, controlled by the Northern Land Council, inhabited by local Aboriginals. Full definition →