The Mitaka (alternatively Mithaka) 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 of the state of
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
.
Country
In
Norman Tindale's calculations, the Mitaka, a
Channel Country people around
Lake Machattie, are assigned a tribal domain of some from
Durrie in the south northwards as far as
Glengyle
Glengyle distillery is a long-established Scotch whisky production centre in Campbeltown, Argyll & Bute, that closed down in 1925. In 2000 it was totally re-planned as the first new Scottish distillery of the millennium. Its single malts are bot ...
. Their eastern limits ran close t
Monkira while the western frontier was a
Kalidawarry
Alternative names
* ''Mithaka''
* ''Mittaka.''
* ''Mittuka.''
* ''Marunga.''
* ''Mit:aka.'' (putatively a Dieri exonym)
* ''Marrala/ Marranda'' (language names)
* ''Murunuta.''
* ''Midaga.''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland