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The Manbarra, otherwise known as the Wulgurukaba, are Aboriginal Australian people, and the traditional custodians of the Palm Islands, Magnetic Island, and an area of mainland Queensland to the west of Townsville. The Manbarra people were forcibly moved off the Palm Islands in the 1890s by the Queensland Government, and hundreds of people ...
The name Wulguru comes from Wulgurukaba, the language/group name of the Aboriginal people of the Cleveland Bay area. [ 2 ] The Wulguru railway station ( 19°19′34″S 146°49′35″E / 19.3260°S 146.8263°E / -19.3260; 146.8263 ( Wulguru railway station (former) ) ) on the North Coast railway line has been abandoned
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.
Bohle Plains is a locality in Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , Bohle Plains had a population of 3,989 people. [ 1 ]
Magnetic Island (Wulguru: Yunbenun) is an island 8 kilometres (5 mi) offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This 52 km 2 (20.1 sq mi) mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville. The island is accessible from Townsville Breakwater to Nelly Bay Harbour by ferry.
Castle Hill is a suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [2] The suburb is based on and around the mountain of the same name. [3] The Indigenous name for the mountain is Cootharinga, sometimes written as Cooderinga. [4] [5] In the 2021 census, Castle Hill had a population of 972 people. [1]
In Manbarra beliefs the Palm Island group were formed in the Dreamtime from the broken up fragments of an ancestral spirit, Rainbow Serpent. [6]Manbarra (also known as Wulgurukaba) is a language of the Palm Island region, which lies within the local government boundaries of the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council.
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]