Nemarluk [SEP] place of death
Nemarluk
Nemarluk (1911? – August 1940) was a fierce Aboriginal warrior who lived around present-day Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. He fought strongly against both white and Japanese intruders who had come, unasked, into his people's tribal lands.
Reported to be 6 feet 2 inches tall, he was head man of the Chul-a-mar, the "Red Band of Killers". The men close to him and most loyal were Minmara, Mankee, Mangue and Lin. People of
Nemarluk: King of the Wilds
Nemarluk: King of the Wilds is a book by Ion Idriess about aboriginal warrior Nemarluk.
Idriess met Nemarluk twice and had previously written about him in a section of his 1935 book "Man Tracks". Nemarluck died in August 1940 prompting Idriess to write a book focusing on him.
The "Sydney Morning Herald" wrote that: