Lombadina is a medium-sized Aboriginal community on the north-western coast of Western Australia on Cape Leveque, north of Broome in the Kimberley region.
At the 2016 Census, this single urban area had a total population of 397, including 312 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
[1] The Catholic mission was established with the help of Thomas Puertollano, a Filipino from Manila, in 1910–11.
[2][full citation needed] In 1916, to avoid it being taken over by the government of Western Australia, the land was bought by an Irishman, the brother of the controversial Redemptorist priest, John Creagh.
The community is located within the determined Bardi Jawi (WAD49/1998) native title claim area.