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The Goeng were an indigenous Australian tribe of the state of Queensland. They lived in the area of the area of present day Gladstone.

Queensland North-east state of Australia

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

Gladstone, Queensland City in Queensland, Australia

Gladstone is a city in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It is approximately 550 km (340 mi) by road north of Brisbane and 100 km (62 mi) south-east of Rockhampton. Situated between the Calliope and Boyne Rivers, Gladstone is home to Queensland's largest multi-commodity shipping port.

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Country

The traditional tribal lands of the Goeng, according to Norman Tindale, stretched over an estimated 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2), running from the southern end of Port Curtis to near mouth of Baffle Creek. Their inland extension went as far as the headwaters of the Kolan River, and took in the ManyPeaks Range. Their land also included Lowmead and one of their borders touched Miriam Vale. [1]

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

Norman Barnett Tindale AO was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

Baffle Creek, Queensland Suburb of Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia

Baffle Creek is a locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2011 census, the population of Baffle Creek was too low to separately report and was aggregated with the neighbouring locality of Deepwater which had a reported population of 548 people. The neighbourhood of Wartburg is within the locality.

Kolan River river in Queensland, Australia

The Kolan River is a river located in Central Queensland, Australia.

Controversy

John Mathew identified the Goeng and the Goreng goreng as the same tribe, though the former is coastal and the latter an inland tribe [lower-alpha 1] . Tindale noted and criticized the conflation. [1]

John Mathew was an Australian Presbyterian minister and anthropologist, author of "Eaglehawk and Crow" and "Two Representative Tribes of Queensland".

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Notes

  1. ↑ As the accompanying sketch map shows, the neighbours of the Gurang tribe were the Meerooni and Toolooa on the north, the Tarambol on the west, and the Dappil and Wakka on the south. The Gurang territory covered all the basin of the Upper Burnett, from about Gayndah northward, and, relying upon the virtual identity of Curr's Baffle Creek vocabulary with that of the Upper Burnett, in both of which the negative is gurang, the inference seems safe that it embraced the basin of Baffle Creek also, and, therefore, extended right to the coast where that creek debouches.ì [2]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Tindale 1974, p. 168.
  2. ↑ Mathew 1914, p. 435.

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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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Gavan Breen is an Australian linguist, specializing in the description of Australian Aboriginal languages. He has studied and recorded 49 such languages.

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