Wadere

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The Wadere were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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The Wadere inhabited an area along the Gulf of Carpentaria, calculated by Tindale as stretching over an area of some 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2), from north of Batten Creek to the Limmen Bight River and reaching inland as far as Barrkuwirriji (the Four Archers)., [lower-alpha 1] [2] Their borders with the Marra were at the Valley of Springs. [3]

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Notes

  1. The toponym "Four Archers" was coined by Ludwig Leichhardt to honour the four Archer brothers. [1]

Citations

  1. Roberts 2005, p. 10.
  2. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 236.
  3. Reid 1990, p. 91.

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