The flight takes approximately 25 minutes.

The day-to-day management of the Milikapiti community is the responsibility of the Tiwi Islands Regional Council.

Milikapiti was founded in the 1941 as the Snake Bay government aboriginal settlement.

[4] In 1942, aboriginals from Snake Bay captured Australia's first Japanese prisoner of war, Sergeant Hajime Toyoshima, who crash-landed on Melville Island after his plane was damaged while bombing Darwin.

[5] The Snake Bay Patrol was also formed from local Indigenous Australians during World War II.