What is Tiwi Islands?
[[File:Tiwi Islands.png|thumb|250px|[[Landsat 7]] image of the Tiwi Islands]] The '''Tiwi Islands''' are a group of islands part of the [[Northern Territory]], [[Australia]]. The islands are {{cvt|80|km}} to the north of [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]], split by the [[Timor Sea]]. The islands are [[Melville Island (Australia)|Melville Island]] (Australia's third largest island), [[Bathurst Island, Northern Territory|Bathurst Island]], as well as nine smaller islands. The combined area of the Tiwi Islands is {{convert|8320|km2|sqmi|0}}. As of the 2016 [[census]], 2,453 people lived on the islands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/702031060?opendocument|title=2016 Census QuickStats: Tiwi Islands|publisher=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]]|access-date=15 October 2020}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The [[Tiwi people]] are [[indigenous Australians|indigenous]] to the islands. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commonscat}} *{{Official|https://tiwiislands.org.au/}} [[Category:Geography of the Northern Territory]] [[Category:Islands of Australia]] {{geo-stub}}