Gugu Rarmul

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The Gugu Rarmul were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland, one of several whose speech was called Gugu Yawa ('Possum language').

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According to Norman Tindale, the Kokojawa had 3,000 square miles (7,800 km2) of territory. They lived southeast of the Morehead River down to Laura. Due south their boundary was on the south to North Palmer River and the Great Dividing Range. They were present at the upper Mossman and Kennedy rivers. [1]

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    1. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 176.

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