Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yarmirr v Northern Territory (October 2001) was an application for the determination of native title to seas, sea-bed and sub-soil, heard in the Federal Court of Australia. The application was made on behalf of a number of clan groups of Aboriginal people to an area of seas and sea-beds surrounding Croker Island in the Northern Territory. The native title rights and interests claimed included the right to exclusive possession. The case established that traditional owners do have native title of the sea and sea-bed, however common law rights of fishing and navigation mean that only non-exclusive native title can exist over the sea. Both the Commonwealth and the claimants appealed the original determination, the Commonwealths'' appeal was upheld and the claimants'' dismissed. The determination was thus amended so as to be restricted to and apply to the internal waters of the Northern Territory, including the inter-tidal zone both of the mainland and of the islands within the claimed area.