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The climate of Arnhem Land is highly arid, much resembling that of the Grand Canyon area in the United States. Arnhem Land also contains the Gove Peninsula on its north east corner. Gove is the site of large scale Bauxite mining with an associated Alumina refinery. Its administative centre is the town of Nhulunbuy , the fourth-largest population centre in the Northern Territory. Arnhem land is notable for its Aboriginal Rock-art , at Ubirr Rock and in the Canon Hill area. Some of these record early presence of Europeans, sometimes in such detail that Martini-Henry rifles can be identified. Other items depicted include axes, detailed paintings of aircraft and ships. In one remote shelter, several hundred kilometers from Darwin, there is a depiction of the whole wharf at Darwin, including buildings and boats, the Europeans themselves being painted, with their hats and pipes, some without hands (which they have in their trouser pockets); one human figure near the East Alligator River crossing is painted with a gun and long pigtails down his back, identifiable as one of the Chinese labourers brought to Darwin in the late 19th century. Arnhem Land is notable also for the temporary Ground Paintings ritualistically created by indigenous inhabitants of Arnhem Land. |