History and First Nations stories
A Songline with a name, carried by its custodians.
The trail follows a Songline of the Jawoyn people along the western edge of the Arnhem Land escarpment, a route of water, shelter and story walked for generations between Nitmiluk and Leliyn. It bears the name of Peter Jatbula, a Jawoyn elder who walked this country with his family and was instrumental in the land claim that returned Nitmiluk to its people, who now care for the park jointly with the Northern Territory.
National registration carries the trail’s story, told by the Jawoyn, to every Australian, alongside the galleries, gorges and falls that hold it.
Stories connected to Country are told only with, and as guided by, their custodians, under the First Nations custodianship protocols at the centre of the register’s governance.