The Gabulbarra people, also rendered Gabalbura, Gabalbara and Kabalbara, is an

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people of an area in eastern Central Queensland, but there is little recorded information about them.

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Gabulbarra traditional lands were estimated by Norman Tindale to encompass roughly around the areas to the west of the Mackenzie and

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rivers as far as Peak Range. Their northern limits lay close to Cotherstone. Gavan Breen says that the name alludes to a Central Queensland group who spoke a Biri dialect. The origin of the name is from ''gabul'', the word for " carpet snake", so it means "carpet snake people".

Alternative spellings

Other spellings of the name include Kabelbara, Kaiabara, Gabelbara, and Gabulbara.

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also assigned the name

Yettimaralla The Yetimarala, also written Jetimarala and Yetimarla and also known as Bayali, Darumbal, Yaamba and other names and variant spellings, were an Aboriginal Australian people of eastern Queensland. Country Norman Tindale originally classified the ...

Language

There has been no linguistic information recorded for this language, but they may have spoken a dialect of the Biri language.

Gabulbarra Reference Group

There is an entity known as the Gabulbarra Reference Group registered in Townsville, which lodged two native title claims over parts of

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in 1998, but this group was acting for the

Wulgurukaba The Manbarra, otherwise known as the Wulgurukaba, are Aboriginal Australian people, and the traditional custodians of the Palm Islands, Magnetic Island, and an area of mainland Queensland to the west of Townsville. The Manbarra people were forci ...

people of Townsville and the

Manbarra The Manbarra, otherwise known as the Wulgurukaba, are Aboriginal Australian people, and the traditional custodians of the Palm Islands, Magnetic Island, and an area of mainland Queensland to the west of Townsville. The Manbarra people were forci ...

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Gabulbarra Reference Group

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