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The Jarowair maintained an important ceremonial site, near the present-day township of Gowrie Junction, north of Toowoomba and 50 km from the Bunya Mountains. It was on one of the major routes employed by many Aboriginal tribes to the south and southeast to participate in the triennial bunya nut feast.
Toowoomba, one of Australia's oldest inland cities, was founded in 1849 on the lands of the Giabal and Jarowair people. [9] The city's central streets were named after the history of the House of Stuart .
According to the historian Raymond Evans, the colonial takeover of the rich lands of not only the Baruŋgam, but also those of the Geynyon, Jarowair and Giabal [a] was accomplished in a short 18 months in the early 1840s, when predominantly Scots settlers, accompanied by convicts and furnished with substantial stands of arms, and having ...
Crows Nest is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] The town is located in the Darling Downs on the New England Highway, 158 kilometres (98 mi) from the state capital, Brisbane and 43 kilometres (27 mi) from the nearby city of Toowoomba.
The Jarowair language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Toowoomba Regional Council, particularly Toowoomba north to Crows Nest and west to Oakey. Giabal is the Southern neighbour in Toowoomba City. [11] The name Koondai-I is believed to be the Indigenous name for the area. [5]
Gowrie Junction is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] It is north-west of Toowoomba . The town of Gowrie is in the eastern part of the locality ( 27°29′58″S 151°53′21″E / 27.4994°S 151.8892°E / -27.4994; 151.8892 ( Gowrie, Queensland
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According to Watson, the "Yugarabul tribe" (Jagera) inhabited the territories from Moreton Bay to Toowoomba to the west, extending almost to Nanango in the northwest. [17] He also describes their territory as "the basins of the Brisbane and Caboolture Rivers " and states that a sub-group of the Yugarabul was the "Turaubul" (Turrbal) people ...