Lombadina, Western Australia

Lombadina is an Aboriginal community on the north-west coast of Western Australia, situated on Cape Leveque, north of Broome in the Kimberley region. The name is derived from the Aboriginal word lollmardinard. The community is largely made up of Bardi people.

Lombadina is part of a single urban area that incorporates Djarindjin and Lombadina. At the 2016 Census, the single urban area had a population of 397, including 312 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

In 1910–11, a Catholic mission was established at Lombadina with the help of Thomas Puertollano, a Filipino from Manila. In 1916, to prevent the mission being taken over by the Western Australian government because it was illegal at the time for an Asian person to employ Aboriginal people, the land was bought by the brother of the controversial Irish Redemptorist priest, John Creagh. Creagh was the rector of the Redemptorist monastery in North Perth.