Ganalanga Mindibirrina "Home of the Waanyi Garawa people"

The Ganalanga Mindibirrina Indigenous Protected Area was declared on 29 June 2015. This achievement was celebrated at Wallace Creek.
The traditional owners of the Waanyi/Garawa Aboriginal Land Trust (ALT) (also known as the Nicholson Block) are the Waanyi and Garawa peoples. The land trust is approximately 60 km from the coast in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria and abuts the Northern Territory/Queensland border, and is approximately 12,000 sq km in area.