The most northerly town in Australia. Located 61 km north of the Jardine River and 983 km north of Cairns Bamaga is the most northern township in Queensland. It is an isolated settlement of some 2000 people, most of whom are Torres Strait Islanders.
Facilities are limited and supplies are either shipped or flown in.
Nonetheless this has not stopped the 4WD brigade. There has been a steady increase in the numbers of such vehicles and a growing obsession with travelling around Australia. This usually means skirting around the perimeter of the continent. Indeed the Northern Land Council in the Northern Territory constantly gets requests from drivers eager to travel through Arnhem Land just so they can say they've been around the edges of Australia. Consequently there is a constant supply of vehicles trekking up the Cape York Peninsula to Bamaga.