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Wunambal
The Wunambal (Unambal), also known as Wunambal Gaambera, Uunguu (referring to their lands), and other names, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. People The Wunambal were, according to Norman Tindale, "perhaps among the most venturesome of Australian aborigines". They learnt part of the craft of building rafts that could withstand the high rips and tides of the sea, the latter rising as much as , from Makassan visitors to make sailing forays out to reefs (''warar'') and islets in the Cassini and Montalivet archipelagoes, and as far as the northerly Long Reef. The Wunambal bands who excelled in this were the Laiau and the Wardana. The Wunambal, Worrorra, and Ngarinyin peoples form a cultural bloc known as Wanjina Wunggurr. The shared culture is based on the dreamtime mythology and law whose creators are the Wanjina and Wunggurr spirits, ancestors of these peoples. The Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation represents the Wun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worrorra
The Worrorra, also written Worora, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley area of north-western Australia. The term is sometimes used to describe speakers of the (Western) Worrorra language, and sometimes groups whose traditional languages are one of the whole group of Worrorran languages. A native title claim in which the people referred to themselves as the Dambimangari people was lodged in 1998 and determined in 2011. The word is said to be derived from Dambina (a name for the Worrorra) and Ngardi peoples. More recently, it has been spelt Dambeemangarddee. The Worrorra, Wunambal and Ngarinyin peoples make up a cultural bloc known Wanjina Wunggurr, in which the Ngardi are sometimes also included. Country The Worrorra are a coastal people, whose land extends from the area around Collier Bay and Walcott Inlet in the south, northwards along the coastlands of Doubtful Bay west of Montgomery Reef to the area of the Saint George Basin and Hanover Bay, encompassin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell River National Park (Western Australia)
Mitchell River National Park is a national park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, northeast of Perth. The park adjoins the northern boundary of the Prince Regent National Park. The nearest towns are Derby, to the southwest, as well as Wyndham, to the southeast. Created in 2000, the park covers an area of over on the Mitchell Plateau (Ngauwudu). The two main features of the park are Mitchell Falls (a waterfall on the Mitchell River) and Surveyors Pool (or Aunauyu). It lies in the traditional lands of the Wunambal, an Aboriginal Australian people. The park is known for distinctive plants such as a species of fan palm; it is home to several significant and threatened species, including the tiny rock wallaby known as the monjon and the black grasswren. A new Kimberley National Park, which would encompass Mitchell River National Park, Prince Regent National Park and Lawley River National Park, was in the early stages of planning around 2015 by Colin Barnett's go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngarinjin
The Ngarinyin or Ngarinjin are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Their language, Ngarinyin, is also known as Ungarinyin. When referring to their traditional lands, they refer to themselves as Wilinggin people. Language Ngarinyin, or Ungarinyin, is one of three languages belonging to the Worrorran language family. As of 2003 there were 82 speakers of Ngarinyin spread out from Derby to the King River. At the time of the 2016 Australian census, there were 38 people recorded to speak the language at home. According to Rumsey, Ngarinyin may be applied to either the language or the people who speak it, whereas Ungarinyin may only refer to the language. McGregor reported that "Ngarinyin has been chosen as the preferred language name" by the community. Social organisation The Ngarinjin were composed of roughly 40 groups. Each of these local divisions, with its own distinctive clan and moiety classification. The Wunambal, Worrorra, and Ng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngarinyin
The Ngarinyin or Ngarinjin are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Their language, Ngarinyin, is also known as Ungarinyin. When referring to their traditional lands, they refer to themselves as Wilinggin people. Language Ngarinyin, or Ungarinyin, is one of three languages belonging to the Worrorran language family. As of 2003 there were 82 speakers of Ngarinyin spread out from Derby to the King River. At the time of the 2016 Australian census, there were 38 people recorded to speak the language at home. According to Rumsey, Ngarinyin may be applied to either the language or the people who speak it, whereas Ungarinyin may only refer to the language. McGregor reported that "Ngarinyin has been chosen as the preferred language name" by the community. Social organisation The Ngarinjin were composed of roughly 40 groups. Each of these local divisions, with its own distinctive clan and moiety classification. The Wunambal, Worrorra, and Ng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Regent National Park
Prince Regent National Park, formerly the Prince Regent Nature Reserve, is a protected area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. In 1978 the area was nominated as a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. Land The national park covers a total area of and was created in 1964 to protect the catchment area of the Prince Regent River. The northern boundary of the national park abuts the southern boundary of the Mitchell River National Park creating a protected area of over . The landscape of the reserve ranges from lush rainforest to sandstone plains. The area contains gorges, waterfalls, cliffs and mountain ranges. Careening Bay, on Coronation Island, site of "The Mermaid Tree" (after , Philip Parker King's ship) is within the park. The boab tree was inscribed by the ship's carpenter when the vessel was deliberately careened (beached) in order to undertake repairs. Traditional Owners The Traditional Owners of the area round the river are the Worrorra peoples, but the park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Island (Western Australia)
Coronation Island, also known as Garlinju, is located off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. It encompasses an area of . It is located off Port Nelson in the Bonaparte Archipelago, as a part of the group of islands known as the Coronation Islands, which were named by Philip Parker King, the first European to visit the islands in 1820, after the anniversary of the coronation of George III, who had died in January of that year. The traditional owners of the area are the Wunambal peoples, in whose language group of Wunambal the name for the island is Garlinju. Careening Bay (Wunbung-gu) is a bay on the island, where King careened his cutter, , to make repairs. While on the island, the ship's carpenter engraved the name of the ship on a Boab tree (known as the Bodgurri by the Wunambal) that is still visible today. Parker did not observe any of the local people, but made observations in his journal on the other signs of life that they observed. He described not only bark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kambure
The Kambure, more commonly known now as ''Gamberre'', were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Language The Kambure spoke a dialect of Wunambal. Country Norman Tindal estimated Kambure lands to extend over some around the Admiralty Gulf, excluding the areas around the Osborne Islands. Their eastern boundary lay abouMonger Creekin Napier Broome Bay. Their southern extension ran along the south rim of the King Edward River. History of contact An area of Kambure territory had a sacred value for them in their dreaming, yet was thought to require patrolling by the Australian Army. The compromise worked out was to enroll several Kambure boys as army scouts, who, knowing the lay of the ground, could assist the special patrols in carrying out their coastal surveillance. People The Kambure were a coastal people, who subsisted on marine products. One Kambure horde lived on Sir Graham Moore Island. Alternative names * ''Kambera.'' * ''Kam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Osborn Island
Middle Osborn Island is an island off the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Located on the western side of Admiralty Gulf and a part of the Bonaparte Archipelago, the island encompasses an area of . It is part of the Osborn Island group, which includes South West Osborn, Borda, Carlia, Steep Head and Kidney Island as well as West, North and Centre Rock. The island is a volcanic plug. The traditional owners of the area are the Uunguu peoples of the Wunambal language group, whose name for the island is ''Ngurraali''. The group was named in 1891 by Phillip Parker King after John Osborn, one of the Lords of the Admiralty. The air-breathing land snails, ''Kimberleymelon tealei'' and ''Carinotrachia admirale'' are both endemic to the island.Köhler F. (2010). "Three new species and two new genera of land snails from the Bonaparte Archipelago in the Kimberley, Western Australia (Pulmonata, Camaenidae)." ''Molluscan Research'' 30: 1-16abstract [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Edward River
The King Edward River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the river rise below Poonjurra Hill and flows in a northerly direction almost parallel with the Kalumburu Road and eventually discharges into Deep Bay then Napier Broome Bay and finally the Indian Ocean. The river has seven tributaries, including Carson River, Drum Creek, Noolawayoo Creek, Coondillah Creek and Hair Creek. The river contains several permanent pools, where examples of Indigenous Australian art known as Bradshaw paintings can be found along the cliff faces. The river was named in 1901 by the surveyor Frederick Brockman while on expedition in the area. The river is named after King Edward VII, the reigning monarch at the time. The traditional owners Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley Land Council
Kimberley Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, known as Kimberley Land Council (KLC), is an association of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The land council was formed at a meeting at Noonkanbah Station in May 1978. The corporation is registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations as ICN (Indigenous Corporation Number) 21. The introduction of the '' Native Title Act 1993'' saw the KLC as the native title representative body for Kimberley traditional owners. In the years 1998 to 2007, Federal Court native title litigation was successful for the following claims: * Miriuwung and Gajerrong * Karajarri * Tjurabalan * Bardi Jawi * Wanjina Wunggurr, for the Ngarinyin/Wilinggin people * Rubibi (Broome), for the Yawuru people The Uunguu (Wunambal) and Dambimangari The Worrorra, also written Worora, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley area of north-western Australia. The term is sometimes used to describe sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admiralty Gulf
Admiralty Gulf is a gulf in the Kimberley region of Western Australia that opens into the Indian Ocean. Description The Gulf is bounded by the Bougainville Peninsula to the north and Bigge Point to the south. The nearest populated place is Kalumburu, located to the east. Many islands are found within the Gulf, including Middle Osborn Island, Kingsmill Island, Borda Island and the Montesquieu Islands (including the Low Rocks and Sterna Island Important Bird Area). Two natural harbours are found in the Gulf, Port Warrender and Walmesly Bay. History The traditional owners of the areas around the gulf are the Wenamba peoples to the west and the Kambure peoples to the east. Nicolas Baudin charted Cape Bougainville in 1803 and Cassini Island and was most likely the first European to visit the Gulf. The coastline around the Gulf was explored by Philip Parker King Rear Admiral Phillip Parker King, FRS, RN (13 December 1791 – 26 February 1856) was an early explorer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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