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Prior to the banning of the trade in 1965, dugong oil was a popular Australian product. Brisbane chemists bought it in large quantities and it was also used in the production of cosmetics. Dugong bone, when turned into charcoal, was said to be the best charcoal for sugar refining. A ban on hunting dugongs in Moreton Bay was enacted on 20 March ...
The dugong (/ ˈ d (j) uː ɡ ɒ ŋ /; Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal.It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees.It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century.
The property is also famous for its rich marine life including a large population of dugongs, and provides a refuge for a number of other globally threatened species. The bay features Australia's most abundant marine ecosystems. [3] It is a popular fishing spot.
The Yawuru people in Broome also include the Djugun and the two are distinguished only by minor dialectal differences. [8]In Yawuru cosmology, the primordial time and its world is still present in its creative force, governing social relations, informing the way one interacts with the maritime and continental landscape within their traditional territory, and securing the well-being of the ...
A fossil reveals how a now-extinct species of dugong was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by a crocodile and a tiger shark.
Thompson, Donald (July–December 1934). "The Dugong Hunters of Cape York". Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 64. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 237–263. doi:10.2307/2843809. JSTOR 2843809. Worsley, Peter (April 1955). "Early Asian Contacts with Australia". Past and Present (7): 1–11.
While Yuwibara women specialised in hunting freshwater turtles in the wetlands and swamps, the men would hunt sea turtles and dugong in the sea grass of the shore of Cape Hillsborough. The fat of dugong was even mixed with wax to form glue for spears. Moreover, fish, mud crabs, snakes, wallabies and brush turkeys formed an important part of ...
The Lama Lama, also spelt Lamalama, are a contemporary Aboriginal Australian people of the eastern Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. The term was formerly used as one of the ethnonyms associated with a distinct tribe or clan group, the Bakanambia. [1] They are today an aggregation of remnants of several former tribes or clan groups.