Maranganji

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The Maranganji (also called Margany, Mardigan) are an Aboriginal Australian tribe from southwest Queensland.

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Country

Norman Tindale's estimated Maranganji tribal land to be 810 square miles (2,100 km2) [1] .

Alternative names

Mardigan Source: Tindale 1974 , p. 181

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    Citations

    1. Tindale 1974, p. 181.

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