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The Totj (alternatively Trotj [1] ) were an indigenous Australian people of far northern Queensland.

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Their country spread over some 600 square miles (1,600 km2) of territory from the Upper Mission River and Cox Creek (middle Batavia River). It covered York Downs, and extended south to as far as Merluna. [2]

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Citations

  1. Y37 Trotj at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 186.

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