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Historic land handover as 360,000 hectares returned to traditional owners on Cape York

More than 362,000 hectares of land on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula has been handed back to traditional owners in a historic ceremony. 

The deal will see national park and Aboriginal freehold land — equivalent to 676,000 football fields — returned to three local Indigenous groups after decades of campaigning.

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