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The Goenpul's traditional lands occupied some 100 square miles (260 km 2) on southern part of Stradbroke Island.On their northern boundary were the Nunukul. [3] As one of the three tribes constituting the Quandamooka people, the others being the Nunukul and the Ngugi, [1] they are custodians with traditional ownership rights in Moreton Bay.
The Quandamooka people are the traditional owners of North Stradbroke island. [ 3 ] The island is divided into four localities : Dunwich , Amity and Point Lookout are small localities centred on the towns of the same name, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] while the remainder of the island is in the locality of North Stradbroke Island . [ 7 ]
North Stradbroke Island is the larger of the two, about 38 km long and up to 11 km wide. South Stradbroke Island is about 22 km long and at most 2 km wide. North Stradbroke is the more developed of the two islands, with the three small townships of Dunwich, Amity Point and Point Lookout offering vacation rentals, shops and a range of eateries ...
Moreton Bay, Moreton Island, Stradbroke Island and the rest of Redland Bay islands are the traditional homes of the Quandamooka people. The Quandamooka people (Jandai pronunciation: / ˈ k w ɒ n d ə ˌ m ʊ k ə /) are Aboriginal Australians who live around Moreton Bay in Southeastern Queensland.
On North Stradbroke Island and the mainland opposite there were 2 or perhaps 3 clan divisions of the Quandamooka: the Nunukul, Goenpul Koobeenpul. Steele suggests that the Goenpul and the Koobeenpul may be one and the same clan, as the similarity in the names suggests.
Those buried are believed to include many who were descended from the traditional owners of Stradbroke Island. [ 1 ] After cleaning up the grounds in late 1947, control of the cemetery, which was on Crown Land, passed to the Department of Health and Home Affairs, though it was a matter of some dispute as to who should be responsible for its ...
The Ngugi language was called guwar, a term that, by extension served as one of the names for the people, reflects their word for "no" (gowarliosislipotinoionalop). [1] It was mutually intelligible with the other Moreton bay languages: Tom Petrie, who had mastered the Brisbane area Turrbal language could, according to his daughter's reminiscences, understand the speech of Ngugi people from the ...
On 6 June 2014, North Stradbroke Island's traditional owners, the Quandamooka people, initiated a legal challenge saying, on the grounds that the LNP Government's extension of mining contravened the Federal Native Title Act. [43]