Kunggara

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The Kunggara, also known as Kuritjara, are an indigenous Australian people of the southern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.

Cape York Peninsula peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia

Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia. The land is mostly flat and about half of the area is used for grazing cattle. The relatively undisturbed eucalyptus-wooded savannahs, tropical rainforests and other types of habitat are now recognized and preserved for their global environmental significance, but native wildlife is threatened by introduced species and weeds. In 1606, Dutch sailor Willem Janszoon on board the Duyfken reached Australia as its first known European explorer, discovering the Cape York Peninsula.

Queensland North-east state of Australia

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Language

The Kunggara spoke Gurdjar, which had two dialects, Gunggara and Rip. Gavan Breen did a salvage study of the language, drawing on information obtained during an interview with one of the last speakers, Elsie McKillop, conducted at Bloodwood. [ citation needed ]

Gurdjar (Kurtjar) is a Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. There are two dialects, Gurdjar proper (Gunggara), and Rip. Kunggara is another name for one or the other.

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

Country

In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Kunggara's tribal territory covere some 1,900 square miles (4,900 km2), centered on the Staaten River and running south to the Smithburne River and Delta Downs. The limits of their inland extension lay around Stirling and Lotus Vale. [1]

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

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

Staaten River river in Australia

The Staaten River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Delta Downs Station

Delta Downs Station also known as Morr Morr is a pastoral lease that currently operates as a cattle station in Queensland.

Neighbouring tribes were the Maikulan and Maijabi. [2]

The Maikulan were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland. They have sometimes been confused with the Maithakari.

The Maijabi (Mayi-Yapi) were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

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Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 178.
    2. 1 2 Palmer 1886, p. 330.

    Sources

    Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

    The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, publishing and research institute and is considered to be Australia's premier resource for information about the cultures and societies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Institute is a leader in ethical research and the handling of culturally sensitive material and holds in its collections many unique and irreplaceable items of cultural, historical and spiritual significance. The collection at AIATSIS has been built through over 50 years of research and engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and is now a source of language and culture revitalisation, native title research and family and community history. AIATSIS is located on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

    Royal Society of New South Wales academy of sciences

    The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia. It is the oldest such society in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere. The Governor of New South Wales is the vice-regal patron of the Society.

    Edward Palmer was an Australian pastoralist, public servant and conservative Queensland politician.

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