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The Beriguruk were an
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 ...
people, now thought to be extinct, of the
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
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The Beriguruk used to inhabit the area southwards from the mouth of Mary River, mainly on its eastern bank, and running inland, but not frequenting the marshland and beaches of the coastal area, which were in the domain of the
Djerimanga The Djerimanga, also known as the Wulna, are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Country Djerimanga country consisted of some on the coastal plain where the Adelaide River debouches into the Timor Sea, north to the tip ...
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Alternative names

* ''Perrigurruk'' * ''Eri, Erei'' * ''Rereri,'' (?) ''Reveri'' (typo perhaps). * ''Wolna, Woolna, Woolner, Wulnar, Woolnough Wulna.'' * ''Wuna.'' * ''Birrigarak'' (Warray exonym). * ''Berrigurruk, Berugurruk.''


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* * * Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory {{NorthernTerritory-stub