The Wik Paach or Wikapatja were an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.
The Wikapatja spoke Wik Paach, which despite the name, is not one of the Wik languages.
The Wikapatja were a small tribe whose territory, estimated by Tindale as not exceeding 100 square miles (260 km2), was limited to the mangroves around the delta of the Archer River. [1]
The tribe was deemed to be extinct by the time of Tindale's writing in 1974.
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