Nemarluk

Nemarluk (c. 1911 – August 1940) was an Murrinh-patha man, Aboriginal warrior and resistance leader who lived around present-day Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.

One of the most famous incidents concerning Nemarluk and his men was the killing of the Japanese crew of the lugger Ouida at Injin Beach, near Port Keats in 1933.

He soon managed to break out, and made his escape by swimming eight kilometres across Darwin Harbour to the then-remote Cox Peninsula.

[3] This book focuses particularly on his battle against the tracker Bul-Bul, whom the Northern Territory Police had brought in to capture him.

[9] Nemarluk is commemorated in the Northern Territory as a street in the Darwin suburb of Ludmilla,[10] an Aboriginal community near Wadeye,[11] a locality shared between the local government areas of Victoria Daly Region and the West Daly Region,[12][13] and a Darwin special needs school.