Lotiga

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The Lotiga, also known as the Okara, were an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of North 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.

North Queensland Region in Queensland, Australia

North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland. Queensland is a massive state, larger than many countries, and the tropical northern part of it has been historically remote and undeveloped, resulting in a distinctive regional character and identity.

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Country

Lotiga country, calculated to extend over some 400 square miles (1,000 km2), was situated around the upper Dulhunty tributary of the Ducie river and McDonnell Telegraph Station, [1] between the Paterson and Moreton stations on the Cape York Telegraph Line. [2]

Ducie River river in Australia

The Ducie River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Paterson (Cape York) Telegraph Station

The Paterson Telegraph Station was a telegraph station in Queensland, Australia. It was the original location for the end of the Cape York Telegraph Line. It was the landing point for the undersea cable Telegraph Cable between Cape York Peninsula and Thursday Island.

Moreton Telegraph Station

The Moreton Telegraph Office, located on the banks of the Wenlock River was part of the Cape York Telegraph Line and was completed in 1887.

People

Ursula McConnel suggested that the Okara tribe mentioned by Lauriston Sharp, [3] as belonging to the Jathaikana type of social organization, might be the same as the Lotiga. [4] Norman Tindale equated the two on the basis of McConnel's provisory conjecture. [1]

Ursula McConnel Australian anthropologist

Ursula Hope McConnel (1888–1957) was a Queensland anthropologist and ethnographer best remembered for her work with, and the records she made of the Wik Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula.

Lauriston Sharp American anthropologist and academic

Lauriston Sharp was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He was the first person appointed in anthropology at the university, and he created its Southeast Asia Program, research centers in Asia and North and South America, a multidisciplinary faculty and strong language program. He was a founding member of the Society for Applied Anthropology and a founding trustee of the Asia Society.

The Yadhaykenu, otherwise known as the Jathaikana or Yadhaigana, are an Australian aboriginal tribe of northern Queensland.

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    1. 1 2 3 Tindale 1974, p. 179.
    2. ↑ McConnel 1939, p. 57.
    3. ↑ Sharp 1939, p. 258.
    4. ↑ McConnel 1939, p. 57, n.8.

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    William Parry-Okeden Australian explorer and police chief

    William Edward Parry-Okeden was a public servant, Police Commissioner and Protector of Aborigines (1895-1903), as well as a horseman, in Queensland, Australia.

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