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The Rakkaia were an indigenous Australian tribe of the state of Queensland.

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).

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The Rakkaia are estimated by Norman Tindale to have had, within their tribal domains, some 2,200 square miles (5,700 km2) of territory, stretching westwards from Coorabulka as far as the Georgina River, and the eastern vicinity of Breadalbane. [1]

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

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

Coorabulka

Coorabulka Station most commonly known as Coorabulka is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Queensland, Australia.

Georgina River river in Australia

The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in Central West Queensland, that also flows through a portion of the Northern Territory, in central Australia. Part of the Lake Eyre basin, the Georgina flows in extremely wet years into Lake Eyre.

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    Citations

    1. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 185.
    2. ↑ Roth 1897, p. 41.

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    Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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    Walter Roth Australian anthropologist

    Walter Edmund Roth was a British colonial administrator, anthropologist and medical practitioner, who worked in Queensland, Australia and British Guiana between 1898 and 1928.

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