[5] Uradhi (also known as Anggamudi, Ankamuti, Atampaya, Bawtjathi, and Lotiga) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Western Cape York Peninsula.

Following the displacement of Indigenous people by British settlement, it was also spoken in the Northern Peninsula Area Region including the communities of New Mapoon, Injinoo and Cowal Creek.

[6] In 1891 the Moravian Church established a mission at Mapoon with the aim of providing education and health services to the Aboriginal people.

The closing of the Mission was explained publicly as a measure to 'rationalise services' for the Cape indigenous people by centralising them in the Bamaga area.

[citation needed] Mapoon became known as one of the places involved in the fight for Indigenous land rights in the 1970s, and seven families had moved back by 1975.

The Black Resource Centre in Melbourne,[12] led by Cheryl Buchanan, was involved, and she also took Lionel Fogarty to meet the displaced residents.

[24] The government-built housing is spread out in bushland along Red Beach Road towards Cullen Point,[19] rather than being clustered together as in other Western Cape communities.

[29] Mapoon experiences a tropical savanna climate (Köppen: Aw, Trewartha: Awha), with hot conditions year-round.

[31][32] Presently the town has a primary school, nursing station, council office and small shop providing fuel and food.

[citation needed] An alcohol management plan (AMP) exists in the community, with restrictions on the amount and type of liquor that may be carried on persons or vehicles in the area.

[35] This AMP was formulated and requested by the majority of Elders within the community and passed by law by the Government of Queensland into section 168 of the Liquor Act 1992.