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  2. Gandangara - Wikipedia

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    At least fourteen were killed and the only survivors were two women and three children. Among those killed was a mountain chief Conibigal, [a] an old man called Balyin, a Dharawal man called Dunell, along with several women and children. [16] [14] Aboriginal descendants claim the figure of 14 is an underestimate, and that many more were ...

  3. Aboriginal sites of New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    Red Hands Cave, Blue Mountains National Park, outside Glenbrook, contains large collection of hand stencils. Stonewoman Aboriginal Area, Inverell area, features Tingha Stonewoman rock formation, a teaching and ceremonial site. [21] Tamarama, Sydney. A large carving of a whale and fish is located beside the path from Bondi Beach to Tamarama.

  4. Yarramundi - Wikipedia

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    Yarramundi's daughter, Maria (born 1805) was the first Aboriginal child to be placed in the Native Institute at Parramatta, where she won the Yearly state Examinations ahead of 100 white children. On 26 January 1824, she married convict Robert Lock. It was the first legal marriage between an Aboriginal and a non Aboriginal person in Australia.

  5. List of Australian Aboriginal group names - Wikipedia

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    This name is one of the names used on the widely used Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. Early versions of the map also divided Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East ...

  6. Wiradjuri - Wikipedia

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    They once occupied a vast area in central New South Wales, on the plains running north and south to the west of the Blue Mountains. The area was known as "the land of the three rivers", [ 13 ] the Wambuul (Macquarie) , the Kalare later known as the Lachlan and the Murrumbidgee , or Murrumbidjeri .

  7. Denisovan - Wikipedia

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    The handprints average 161.1 mm (6.34 in), which roughly equates with a 12 year old modern human child, and the middle finger length agrees with a 17 year old modern human. One of the handprints shows an impression of the forearm, and the individual was wiggling their thumb through the mud.

  8. Winmalee, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales suggested that the area which had been unofficially known as 'North Springwood' be made an independent suburb of the Blue Mountains and renamed 'White Cross' because of the rapidly increasing population growth of Springwood. However residents of the area objected to the name 'White Cross'.

  9. List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.