Beachcomber Heritage
Black Point is also very significant for generations of Aboriginal Australians, who, well before European settlement, found this site to the hospitable, protected and a reliable source of food and water.
The traditional owners of the Adjahdura Land, as it is known, who lived on the Peninsula and made Black Point their home, are found today in several centres, predominantly at Point Pearce on the West Coast near Port Victoria, and at Moonta and Wallaroo in the Copper Triangle District.
A custodian of the knowledge of the people and their spiritual association with this land is Quentin Agius, a member of the Narungga Heritage Forum. Quentin and this family have figured prominently in the Adjahdura Land Community's vision and in maintaining the commitment to their historic links Yorke Peninsula and Black Point.
Beachcomber Heritage
The Narungga Heritage Forum and Burke Urbanhave executed a formal agreement, which sets out designated protection sites within the Blck Point project area, and agreed on a strategy for the removal of any items of heritage significance found at Black Point.
What this means for land purchasers and home builders at Beachcomber is that the developed site has been thoroughly investigated and any known Narungga remnants have been relocated or removed, It also means that, in the now unlikly event that items of significance are identified during the building construction process,new owners also have the protection of the Burke Urban/Narungga agreement, by which the Narungga custodians, once notified, are obliged to remove or relocate any such items within a seven-day time frame.
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Beachcomber Heritage
Other places at Black Point, on the Peninsula, or in South Australia more generally do not provide the degree of certainty that has been secured at the Black Point Beachcomber development.
Click here to obtain an information pack that includes a Beachcomber Heritage information sheet outlining the Burke Urban/Narungga agreement in greater detail.
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