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Protected areas of Queensland Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) is a national park in the Shire of Cook , Queensland , Australia. [ 1 ] The national park was previously named Cape Melville National Park until it was renamed on 28 November 2013.
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Traditional lands of Aboriginal people around Mackay, Rockhampton and Gladstone, Queensland. Traditional Darumbal land is considered to encompass an estimated 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2) around most of coastal Central Queensland, running from Arthur Point at Shoalwater Bay to Yeppoon, and taking in the mouth of Fitzroy River and Keppel Islands.
Aboriginal people with ties to the region seek to maintain their culture today, [10] despite a long period of forced removal from their lands following European occupation in the late 19th-early 20th century. [11] [12] Yidinji (also known as Yidinj, Yidiny, and Idindji) is a local Australian Aboriginal language.
The traditional lands of the Iningai lay to the west of the Great Dividing Range as far as the Forsyth Range, [1] Maneroo Creek, and Longreach. Norman Tindale estimated their territory as encompassing an area close to 19,500 sq. miles. Their southern frontier lay along the tributaries of the Alice River down to the vicinity of Mexico. [2]
The Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 (SA) established the South Australian Aboriginal Lands Trust (ALT). [14] This was the first major recognition of Aboriginal land rights by any Australian government, [15] and predated the 1967 Referendum. It allowed for parcels of Aboriginal land previously held by the SA Government, to be handed to the ...
Norman Tindale estimated Jarowair traditional lands to have encompassed approximately 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2). They were concentrated from the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range around Crows Nest to Dalby. Their northern confines were at Bell in the Bunya Mountains, while their southern flank ended at around Oakey. [1]