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Murunitja
The Murunitja are an indigenous Australian tribe of Western Australia located within the Goldfields-Esperance region. Name The ethnonym ''Murunitja'' appears to derive for a word ''murun'', meaning a "stout person", referring to the characteristic build of the tribe. Language The Murunitja language is closely related to Mirnung and Ngadjunmaya Country Murunitja country covered about from the northern edge of the Nullarbor Plain The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of , 'no', and , 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its ... at Naretha to Loongana. They also ranged as far as Rawlinna and the Walawuluna Rockhole. Alternative names * ''Mooroon.'' * ''Murnidja.'' * ''Mara.'' (?) * ''Kogara.'' ('east') Notes Citations Sources * * * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Goldfields-Esp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murunitja Language
Mirning (Mirniny) is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Mirning or of its sister language Ngadjunmaya. References Mirning languages {{ia-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirning Language
Mirning (Mirniny) is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Mirning or of its sister language Ngadjunmaya. References Mirning languages {{ia-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngadjunmaya Language
Ngadjunmaya correctly known as Ngadjumaya is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region. Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Ngadjumaya or of Mirning The Mirning, also known as the Ngandatha, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands lay on the coastal region of the Great Australian Bight extending from Western Australia into south-west South Australia. Name ''Mirniŋ'' was .... Phonology Vowels Three vowels with length are present: * /i/ can also be heard as before a velar /k/, and as ~ before palatal sounds /ʎ, j/. * /a/ can also be heard as when following sounds /w, j/, and as when following /k/. * /u/ can also be heard as fronted when preceding /j/. Consonants * /ɽ/ can be heard as either a tap or a glide . * /r/ can be heard as either a trill or a tap . * /k/ can also have a voiced allophone of when in word-medial positions. References Mirning languages Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples of the Australian mainland and Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islander peoples from the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the terms First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia and First Australians are also increasingly common; 812,728 people self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal; 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander; while 4.4% identified with both groups. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnonym
An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used by the ethnic group itself). As an example, the largest ethnic group in Germany is Germans. The ethnonym ''Germans'' is a Latin-derived exonym used in the English language. Conversely, the Germans call themselves the , an endonym. The German people are identified by a variety of exonyms across Europe, such as (French language, French), (Italian language, Italian), (Swedish language, Swedish) and (Polish language, Polish). As a sub-field of anthroponymy, the study of ethnonyms is called ethnonymy or ethnonymics. Ethnonyms should not be confused with demonyms, distinctive terms that designate all people related to a specific territory, regardless of any ethnic, religious, linguistic or some other distinctions that may exist within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nullarbor Plain
The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of , 'no', and , 'tree') is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north. It is the world's largest single exposure of limestone bedrock, and occupies an area of about . At its widest point, it stretches about from east to west across the border between South Australia and Western Australia. History Historically, the Nullarbor was seasonally occupied by Indigenous Australian people, the Mirning clans and Yinyila people. Traditionally, the area was called ''Oondiri'', which is said to mean "the waterless". The first Europeans known to have sighted and mapped the Nullarbor coast were Captain François Thijssen and Councillor of the Indies, Pieter Nuyts, on the Dutch East Indiaman '''t Gulden Zeepaert'' (the Golden Seahorse). In 1626–1627, they charted a stretch of the southern Australian coast eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naretha Bluebonnet
The Naretha bluebonnet (''Northiella narethae'') or Naretha parrot is a bird found in a remote and arid region of Australia. It is one of two species in the genus '' Northiella'', and was first recorded in 1921 in Central Australia. History It was first described by Henry Luke White in 1921 as ''Psephotus narethae''. An associate of White's, the field worker F. Lawson Whitlock, had come across a railway official on the Trans-Australian Railway with a pet parrot that had been caught at Naretha, which corresponded with no known species. Later, White was heading to Western Australia on business and stopped in Zanthus to talk to the official and obtained three skins which he conveyed to the museum in Melbourne. The bluebonnet species was included for some time in the '' Psephotus'' genus with the Naretha, despite the very pronounced physical and behavioural differences to other birds in this genus. One of the biggest differences being that unlike the obvious sexual dimorphism of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loongana Railway Station
Loongana is a remote siding on the Trans-Australian Railway in the Australian state of Western Australia. It is located approximately at the middle of the Nullarbor Plain and is on the longest length of straight track in the world, which is long. The area was formerly the site of a lime mine and processing plant. The settlement was dependent on the Tea and Sugar Train for the delivery of supplies until 1996 when the train was withdrawn. As of 2022 the ''Indian Pacific'', the only passenger train that traverses the entire Trans-Australian Railway, still passes there, but does not stop. See also * Localities on the Trans-Australian Railway __NOTOC__ When the Trans-Australian Railway was completed in 1917 from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta, about 50 settlements of various sizes were established along the line, from which maintenance workers kept the track in operational condi ... References Disused railway stations in Western Australia Nullarbor Plain Trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawlinna, Western Australia
Rawlinna is an isolated locality on the Trans-Australian Railway in Western Australia, about east of Perth and west of the Western Australia / South Australia border. It is on the Nullarbor Plain, about from its western fringe; the topography is flat and well grassed, with saltbush and bluebush, with small belts of myall and myoporum trees. Annual rainfall is . Maximum daytime temperatures are typically through summer and during winter. In 2016, the population in the area was recorded as 30 people. Rawlinna is the southernmost end of the Connie Sue Highway, a 4-wheel drive track that extends north to the Aboriginal community of Warburton. Australia’s largest operating sheep station, Rawlinna Station, covering an area of – about the area of the Sydney conurbation – adjoins the railway line. It runs up to 65,000 Merino sheep in a good season. Mustering and droving is done on motorbikes and in aircraft to locate them, beginning in January for a 10-week shearing prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIATSIS
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, publishing and research institute and is considered to be Australia's premier resource for information about the cultures and societies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The institute is a leader in ethical research and the handling of culturally sensitive material'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library, Information and Resource Network (ATSILIRN) Protocols for Libraries, Archives and Information Services', http://atsilirn.aiatsis.gov.au/protocols.php, retrieved 12 March 2015‘'AIATSIS Collection Development Policy 2013 – 2016'’, AIATSIS website, http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/about-us/collection-development-policy.pdf, retrieved 12 March 2015 and holds in its collections many unique and irreplac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
