About Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy

Aboriginal people have occupied and continued to practice their own cultural traditions on and maintained the land in Cape York Peninsula for many thousands of years. The Indigenous people of the region comprise several language groups living in discrete areas.

The European settlement of Coen was founded as a log fort beside the Coen River by Robert Sefton in 1876. The river’s name, which the settlement adopted, was chosen more than 200 years earlier by a Dutch explorer on the West Coast, after the Governor of Batavia (Dutch East Indies) who was Jan Pieterszoon Coen.

Coen is situated within a number of important ‘story’ or creation sites, threaded throughout the local landscape’s rivers, rocks and hills. Local elders maintain custodial obligations and responsibilities of these places.

Following a number of land transfer and purchases through State/National Parks, from the 1980s the Indigenous Land Corporation has seen the return of significant outstations and/or land parcels to most language groups residing in Coen.

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