Finniss River (Northern Territory)

The Finniss River Land Claim was presented to Judge John Toohey in 1981[2] but the former Rum Jungle mine site, contained within Area 4 of the Finniss River Land Claim (1981) was excluded from the grant to the Finniss River Land Trust due to the concerns of the Kungarakany and Warai peoples who are joint traditional Aboriginal owners of that area.

[3] The Kungarakan, Warai and Maranunggu peoples are traditional owners of lands in the Finniss River region.

Alyandabu, who was born near the Finniss River, was a respected elder of the Kungarakan people.

Mann was swept away off a sand bar and downstream by rising river levels, and killed by a 3.8m crocodile.

Two of his friends who were with Mann, jumped into the river to save him, and survived the ordeal by clinging onto the fork of a tree for 22 hours.