Asylum seekers go bush in Arnhem Land TEN asylum seekers are thought to have taken off into wilderness in Arnhem Land after their boat reached mainland Australia without being intercepted. It is understood the asylum seekers arrived in a remote stretch of the Northern Territory near Seven Spirit Bay on the Cobourg Peninsula. The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service said a surveillance aircraft spotted the vessel the people were in on Monday, about 109 nautical miles north of the Tiwi Islands. A ship was sent to intercept them but before it reached them the vessel carrying the asylum seekers landed on the Cobourg Peninsula.