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Norman Tindale estimated the range of Wulgurukaba tribal territory at about 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2), which covered both the islands off Townsville - including the Palm Islands and Magnetic Island - and the hinterland west of Townsville to an extent of about 20 miles (32 km) (from the Ross River, eastwards nearly to Cape Cleveland).
Bindal is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family. [3] Bowern [4] suggests that it might have been a Maric language. Gavan Breen [3] has classified it as one of the Lower Burdekin languages yet presumes that one of two Lower Burdekin languages, which he concluded were not Maric, is Bindal.
Aboriginal peoples such as the Wulgurukaba, Bindal, Girrugubba, Warakamai and Nawagi originally inhabited the Townsville area. [17] [18] The Wulgurukaba claim to be the traditional owners of the Townsville city area; the Bindal had a claim struck out by the Federal Court of Australia in 2005. [19]
There is an entity known as the Gabulbarra Reference Group registered in Townsville, [3] which lodged two native title claims over parts of Magnetic Island in 1998, but this group was acting for the Wulgurukaba people of Townsville and the Manbarra people of Palm Island. [4] [5]
Palm Island and Townsville. Wulguru, (also known as Manbara, Manbarra, Korambelbara, Mun ba rah, Nyawaygi or Wulgurukaba) is an Australian Aboriginal language, now extinct, that was spoken by the Wulgurukaba (or Manbarra) people around the area around present day Townsville, Queensland, on the east coast of Australia.
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Bindal (Bendalgubba, Nyawaygi) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of North Queensland. [1] The Bindal language region included the area from Cape Cleveland extending south towards Ayr and the mouth of the Burdekin River , encompassing the landscape within the boundaries of the Townsville City Council and Burdekin Shire Council .
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