Aurukun Aboriginal Shire
Located in Wik country on the western side of Cape York Peninsula, the Aboriginal Shire of Aurukun covers an area of 7,424 square kilometres and has existed as a local government area since 1978, when he Queensland Government took over the Presbyterian mission established in 1904. The Shire's territory was previously a reserve administered under the Queensland Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 by the Presbyterian Church with Aboriginal people from all over Cape York relocated there.
