Indigenous Japanese (Ainu) and Indigenous Australian Cultural Exchange Australian Tour 2011 (Melbourne and Tasmania) 　Panatana 　　　 Munginabitta's Country1, known as Panatana, is located on the shores of the Rubicon Estuary 80km north-west of Launceston and 30 km north-east of Devonport. The leased 550 hectares of coastal native bushland was the homelands of the Punniler-panner band belonging to the Le-Terremair-Rener peoples of the Port Sorell Tribal areas. It consists of a large number of artifact scatters, midden sites and an abundance of bush tucker. The site has not been disturbed since the Le-Terremair-Rener peoples were forced off the land. The survey of the site has started with an Indigenous Heritage Programme fund for cultural heritage site assessment. 　　 　　 Note 1 Munginabitta [c.1819-1839] was a native Punniler-panner woman of Tasmania’s North West Coast who was born at Port Sorell. The land that borders the Rubicon Estuary opposite the township of Port Sorell in North-West Tasmania is leased by the local Six Rivers Aboriginal Corporation which has adopted the name ‘Munginabitta’s Country’ in recognition of this ancestral link. 　 Photo Courtesy Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery back to TOP page