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Gulgibarra
''Gulgibarra'' (aka ''gulgibara'', ''koolgibbera'') is the name for the local Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Australian group who are particularly associated with, and 'belong to', the sandy seashores and the lower saltwater reaches of the Mulgrave River, Mulgrave and Russell River, Russell Rivers (aka ''Madjaybana'') including the Mutchero Inlet, where 'the waters flow through sand' in Wet Tropics of Queensland, North East Queensland's wet tropics Local Group A local Aboriginal language speaker, ''Djariyi'' (aka Dick Moses) identified himself to linguist Robert M. W. Dixon as a member of the ''Gulgibarra''. ''Djariyi'', together with a number of other local Aboriginal language speakers, taught Dixon that the original people of the Yarrabah, Queensland, Yarrabah -Cairns Region, Cairns region (aka ''bama'') are all members of one or other local groups and, if asked, can each identify themselves by attaching the affix ''barra'' (trans. 'belonging to') to a noun for the terrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulgibarra 1904
''Gulgibarra'' (aka ''gulgibara'', ''koolgibbera'') is the name for the local Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Australian group who are particularly associated with, and 'belong to', the sandy seashores and the lower saltwater reaches of the Mulgrave River, Mulgrave and Russell River, Russell Rivers (aka ''Madjaybana'') including the Mutchero Inlet, where 'the waters flow through sand' in Wet Tropics of Queensland, North East Queensland's wet tropics Local Group A local Aboriginal language speaker, ''Djariyi'' (aka Dick Moses) identified himself to linguist Robert M. W. Dixon as a member of the ''Gulgibarra''. ''Djariyi'', together with a number of other local Aboriginal language speakers, taught Dixon that the original people of the Yarrabah, Queensland, Yarrabah -Cairns Region, Cairns region (aka ''bama'') are all members of one or other local groups and, if asked, can each identify themselves by attaching the affix ''barra'' (trans. 'belonging to') to a noun for the terrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yidinyic Languages
The Yidinyic languages are a pair of languages, previously classified as Paman, proposed to form a separate branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are: *Djabugay The Djabugay people (also known as Djabuganydji or Tjapukai) are a group of Australian Aboriginal people who are the original inhabitants of mountains, gorges, lands and waters of a richly forested part of the Great Dividing Range including th ... * Yidiny However, Bowern (2011) only separates out Yidiny itself, leaving Djabugay in Paman.Bowern, Claire. 2011.How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011correctedFebruary 6, 2012) References {{Ia-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South East Queensland metropolitan region, which encompasses a population of around 3.8 million. The Brisbane central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea. Brisbane is located in the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges. It sprawls across several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane, Australia's most populous local government area. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Traditional Owners of the Brisbane a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calamus Australis
''Calamus australis'', commonly known as wait-a-while, hairy mary or lawyer cane, is a plant in the palm family Arecaceae which is endemic to the rainforests of north east Queensland, Australia. Like other species in the genus ''Calamus'', this is a climbing plant with a very long and flexible stem. It uses sharp strong hooks on the fronds and tendrils to attach itself to other vegetation, such as taller established trees, thus gaining support that enables it to grow higher towards the canopy. This species is very similar to '' C. radicalis'', with which it coexists, but is smaller in almost all respects. Description Stems may reach lengths of up to and a diameter of . The leaves (or fronds) are produced on the youngest part of the stem, and the older sections are bare as the leaves age and fall off (exactly the same process as the more familiar upright palm with a stout stem). The older, leafless part of the stem of ''Calamus australis'' is smooth and glossy green. The l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humpy
A humpy, also known as a gunyah, wurley, wurly or wurlie, is a small, temporary shelter, traditionally used by Australian Aboriginal people. These impermanent dwellings, made of branches and bark, are sometimes called a lean-to, since they often rely on a standing tree for support. Etymology The word humpy comes from the Jagera language (a Murri people from Coorparoo in Brisbane); other language groups would have different names for the structure. In South Australia, such a shelter is known as a "wurley" (also spelled "wurlie"), possibly from the Kaurna language. Usage Both names were adopted by early white settlers, and now form part of the Australian lexicon. The use of the term appears to have broadened in later usage to include any temporary building made from any available materials, including canvas, flattened metal drums, and sheets of corrugated iron. Gallery File:StateLibQld 2 239273 Bark humpy on Cleveland Road, Brisbane, 1874.jpg, Bark humpy, Brisbane, 1874 Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Native Police
Australian native police units, consisting of Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal troopers under the command (usually) of at least one white officer, existed in various forms in all Australian mainland colonies during the nineteenth and, in some cases, into the twentieth centuries. The Native Mounted Police utilised horses as their transportation mode in the days before motor cars, and patrolled huge geographic areas. The introduction of a Police presence helped provide law & order to areas which were already struggling with crime issues. From established base camps they patrolled vast areas to investigate law breaches, including alleged murders. Often armed with rifles, carbines and swords, they sometimes also escorted surveying groups, pastoralists and prospectors through country considered to be dangerous. The Aboriginal men within the Native Police were routinely recruited from areas that were very distant from the locations in which they were deployed. As the troopers were A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Arthur Johnstone
Robert Arthur Johnstone (1843 – 16 January 1905) was an officer in the Native Police paramilitary force which operated in the British imperial colony of Queensland. He was stationed at various locations in central and northern Queensland between 1867 and 1880 conducting regular punitive expeditions against clans of Indigenous Australians who resisted colonisation. He also participated in several surveying expeditions in Far North Queensland, including those under the leadership of George Elphinstone Dalrymple, providing well-armed protection for the expeditionary memers. As a result of being at the frontier of British colonial expansion in this region of Australia, a number of geographical and zoological entities are named after him, such as the Johnstone River and the freshwater crocodile. After resigning from the Native Police in 1880, Johnstone was a police magistrate in various locations around Queensland before he retired from government service in 1891. In his years of du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elphinstone Dalrymple
George Augustus Frederick Elphinstone Dalrymple (6 May 1826 – 22 January 1876) was a colonist, explorer, public servant and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. He founded the towns of Bowen and Cardwell, and pioneered the opening up of the Herbert, Burdekin, Johnstone and Daintree River regions to British colonisation. Early life Dalrymple was born in Scotland, the tenth son of Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, Bart., by his marriage with Graeme, daughter of Colonel David Hepburn. Ceylon In the mid-1840s, Dalrymple moved to the British colony of Ceylon where he became a coffee plantation owner in the Central Provinces. Much of the land used to establish these plantations had been confiscated from local peasants, who were left both landless and unemployed as imported Tamil coolies were used as labour. Discontent over their loss of land led many Sri Lankan peasants to revolt in 1848 in what is known as the Matale rebellion. Dalrymple was a prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleiogynium Timoriense
''Pleiogynium timoriense'', commonly known as the Burdekin plum, sweet plum, tulip plum, or in the Djabugay language guybalum is a medium-sized fruit-bearing tree in the family Anacardiaceae native to Malesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. Description ''Pleiogynium timoriense'' is a semi-deciduous rainforest tree growing up to high in rainforests or around in cultivation, and may develop buttress roots on older individuals. It has a dense canopy with glossy dark green leaves 4-10 x 2–6 cm and the trunk has a rough bark. Leaves are imparipinnate with 5 to 11 leaflets which are arranged opposite and are elliptic to ovate in shape. The stalk of the terminal leaflet is significantly longer than those of the lateral leaflets. There are prominent domatia on the underside of leaflets. The tree is dioecious (that is, with separate male and female plants) and has yellowish-green flowers which appear between January and March. The flower calyx lobes are about 0.6–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buchanania Arborescens
''Buchanania arborescens'', commonly known as little gooseberry tree or sparrow's mango, is a small and slender tree native to seasonal tropical forests of northern Australia, south-east Asia, and the Solomon Islands. The leaves are spirally arranged, smooth, leathery, elongated oblong, 5–26 cm long. The flowers are very small cream to yellowish white. The edible fruit are globular, small (1 cm long), reddish to purple-black. These are eaten by Torresian imperial pigeons and other birds. The species was formally described in 1826 by botanist Carl Ludwig Blume based on plant specimens collected from Java. Initially naming it ''Coniogeton arborescens'', Blume transferred the species to the genus '' Buchanania'' in 1850. In Australia the species occurs naturally across the northern extremities of the continent from Western Australia and across the Northern Territory to Queensland where it extends down the east coast as far south as Hinchinbrook Island. Uses Aborigin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echidna
Echidnas (), sometimes known as spiny anteaters, are quill-covered monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae . The four extant species of echidnas and the platypus are the only living mammals that lay eggs and the only surviving members of the order Monotremata. The diet of some species consists of ants and termites, but they are not closely related to the true anteaters of the Americas, which (along with sloths and armadillos) are xenarthrans. Echidnas live in Australia and New Guinea. Echidnas evolved between 20 and 50 million years ago, descending from a platypus-like monotreme. This ancestor was aquatic, but echidnas adapted to life on land. Etymology Echidnas are named after Echidna, a creature from Greek mythology who was half-woman, half-snake, as the animal was perceived to have qualities of both mammals and reptiles. An alternative explanation is a confusion with . Physical characteristics Echidnas are medium-sized, solitary mamm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Cassowary
The southern cassowary (''Casuarius casuarius''), also known as double-wattled cassowary, Australian cassowary or two-wattled cassowary, is a large flightless black bird. It is one of the three living species of cassowary, alongside the dwarf cassowary and the northern cassowary. It is a ratite and therefore related to the emu, ostriches, rheas and kiwis. Taxonomy Presently, most authorities consider the southern cassowary monotypic, but several subspecies have been described. It has proven very difficult to confirm the validity of these due to individual variations, age-related variations, the relatively few available specimens (and the bright skin of the head and neck – the basis upon which several subspecies have been described – fades in specimens), and that locals are known to have traded live cassowaries for hundreds, if not thousands of years, some of which are likely to have escaped/been deliberately introduced to regions away from their origin. Cassowaries are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
