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Tiwi Islands: where AFL is a way of life

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A woman in her seventies, bent with age, is swathed head to toe in blue and she's hollering so loud I temporarily lose hearing in my left hear.

"Bring it home, boys, BRRRRRING IT HOOOOOOOME!"

She's barracking for the Tuyu Buffaloes, and her screams are rewarded minutes later when her team wins the 2014 Tiwi Grand Final.

Welcome to the Tiwi Islands, two small islands about 80km north of Darwin, where AFL isn't just a passion but a way of life.

The Tiwis have the highest participation rate in AFL of any other community in Australia: about 900 of the Islands' 2600 population play, a staggering 35 per cent.

Big names in AFL have sprung from the Tiwi Islands, such as Hawthorn star Cyril Rioli, and Michael Long, who played for Essendon.

Their season runs during the hot, wet half of the year in the Top End, when hundreds of millimetres of rain can fall in a day but which makes surfaces easier to play on than the hard ground during the dry.

On Grand Final day the eight local teams have been whittled down to two: The Tuyu Buffaloes from Bathurst Island and the Mulwurri Magpies from Melville Island.

The Magpies put up a good fight but the Buffaloes claim the premiership, at 13 9 (87) to 12 5 (77), their second win since 2012.

Supporters flood the field, shouting and cheering as they mob the players, babies thrown up onto shoulders and older women weeping with pride as they join the fray.

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Five Things You Should Know About Andaman Islands, Where Flight MH370 May Have Been Headed

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Andaman Islands/Google ImagesTHE Andaman Islands are at the centre of one of the newest theories in the increasingly tangled search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Analysis of radar data, revealed by Reuters on Friday, suggests the plane was flying towards the Indian Ocean archipelago. Reuters cited unidentified sources familiar with the investigation.

Aviation experts and locals are debating whether it would be possible for a giant 777 to land or even approach the islands undetected. An Indian military search operation is being launched from Port Blair, the administrative centre for the islands.

Here are five things to know about the islands now enveloped in the missing plane mystery.

Where are the Andaman Islands?

THEYRE REMOTE AND MOSTLY UNINHABITED

The Andaman Islands are part of Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands territory. There are 572 islands in the territory, only three dozen of which are inhabited. The territory has a population of nearly 380,000, according to Indias 2011 census.

The Andaman group is about 1,370 kilometres east of the Indian subcontinent in the Indian Ocean. Most of the population descends from immigrants from South Asia. India has designated five indigenous tribal groups in the territory as particularly vulnerable due to the loss of sustaining resources and customs.

THE AIRPORTS RUNWAY IS LONG ENOUGH FOR A 777

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Five Things You Should Know About Andaman Islands, Where Flight MH370 May Have Been Headed

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By Katia Hetter and Marnie Hunter, CNN

updated 2:35 PM EDT, Fri March 14, 2014

An Indian military search operation for the missing airliner is being launched from Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.

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(CNN) -- The Andaman Islands are at the center of one of the newest theories in the increasingly tangled search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Analysis of radar data revealed Friday by Reuters suggests the plane was flying toward the Indian Ocean archipelago. Reuters cited unidentified sources familiar with the investigation.

Aviation experts and locals are debating whether it would even be possible for a giant 777 to land -- or even approach -- the islands undetected. An Indian military search operation is being launched from Port Blair, the administrative center for the islands.

Here are five things to know about the islands now enveloped in the missing plane mystery:

They're remote and mostly uninhabited

The Andaman Islands are part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands territory. There are 572 islands in the territory, only three dozen of which are inhabited. The territory has a population of nearly 380,000, according to India's 2011 census.

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Five things to know about India's Andaman Islands

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By Katia Hetter and Marnie Hunter, CNN

updated 2:35 PM EDT, Fri March 14, 2014

An Indian military search operation for the missing airliner is being launched from Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) -- The Andaman Islands are at the center of one of the newest theories in the increasingly tangled search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Analysis of radar data revealed Friday by Reuters suggests the plane was flying toward the Indian Ocean archipelago. Reuters cited unidentified sources familiar with the investigation.

Aviation experts and locals are debating whether it would even be possible for a giant 777 to land -- or even approach -- the islands undetected. An Indian military search operation is being launched from Port Blair, the administrative center for the islands.

Here are five things to know about the islands now enveloped in the missing plane mystery:

They're remote and mostly uninhabited

The Andaman Islands are part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands territory. There are 572 islands in the territory, only three dozen of which are inhabited. The territory has a population of nearly 380,000, according to India's 2011 census.

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Andaman Islands: 5 Things About The Place Flight 370 Could Have Landed

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New radar data suggests that themissing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370may have been hijacked and deliberately flown towards the Andaman Islands. Were sure you have a lot of questions about the Indian-owned islands where the plane may have landed, so HollywoodLife.com has rounded up five key facts aboutthe Andaman Islands.

Investigators have expanded the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to includea remote, mostly uninhabited, Indian-owned archipelago called the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. At the request of the Malaysian government, the Indian government is conducting a huge search of the waters surrounding the island chain.Lets take a closer look at the islands.

1.The Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands form an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 850 miles east of the mainland. There 572 islands in the group, but only 37 are inhabited, according to The Washington Post.Nearly 380,000 people live on the island chain, according to Indias 2011 census.

2.In December, 2004, the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islandswere devastated by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that caused the deaths of more than 200,000 people across a dozen countries, according toThe Straits Times.

3. The island chain was once a penal colony. British colonial rulers used to send criminals to the islands then known asKalapani during the 19th century.

4.Marco Polo discovered the islands in the 13th century. He described the natives in his writings, calling them cannibals, according to the Daily Mirror, and referred to one island asAngamanain.

5.Sir Arthur Conan Doylewrote about the Andaman Islands in hisSherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four.

New theories are still being posited one full week after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing on March 8. Was ita hijacking? An act of terrorism? Or did the aircraft, which was carrying 239 passengers, just crash? On March 14, new data was reported that seemed to confirm the last possibility, that Flight 370 plunged into the sea after making awayward turn towards the Indian Ocean.

The newly revealed claim that the Boeing 777 changed its course and began flying towards the Indian Ocean (afterits transponders had been switched off) seems to support the theory that this is a case of hijacking.

Analysts from U.S. Intelligence, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have tracked satellite data and pings in the Indian Ocean area that they attribute to Flight 370. And without any visual confirmation of the aircraft, there is only one grim conclusion to make: There is probably a significant likelihood that the aircraft is now at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, an official said, according to CNN.

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UPDATE 1-India scours jungle islands for lost Malaysian jetliner

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* Planes and helicopter find no trace of missing flight yet

* Largely uninhabited islands known for dense forest

* Operation 'like finding a needle in a haystack' (Adds fire on North Sentinel island)

By Sanjib Kumar Roy

PORT BLAIR, India, March 14 (Reuters) - Indian aircraft on Friday combed Andaman and Nicobar, made up of more than 500 mostly uninhabited islands, for signs of a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner that evidence suggests was last headed towards the heavily forested archipelago.

Popular with tourists and anthropologists alike, the islands form India's most isolated state. They are best known for dense rainforests, coral reefs and hunter-gatherer tribes who have long resisted contact with outsiders.

The search for lost Flight MH370 has expanded dramatically in the past week but failed to locate the plane or any wreckage, making it one of the most baffling mysteries in aviation history.

Initially focused northeast of Malaysia, search operations took a new turn after Malaysia's air force chief said military radar had spotted an unidentified aircraft, suspected to be the lost Boeing 777, to the west of Malaysia early on March 8.

On Thursday, two sources told Reuters the unidentified aircraft appeared to be following a commonly used navigational route that would take it over the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

The Indian Navy has deployed two Dornier planes to fly across the island chain, a total area of 720 km (447 miles) by 52 km (32 miles), Indian military spokesman Harmeet Singh said in the state capital, Port Blair. So far the planes, and a helicopter searching the coast, had found nothing.

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Ladner Shrimp Traps – The Best Pot For Catching San Juan Islands Spot Prawns – Video

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In LFS Marine and Outdoor #39;s first installment of how to shrimp the San Juan Islands, we #39;re going to show you why Ladner shrimp pots are the most efficient, h...

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