The Murunitja are 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 ...
tribe 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 ...
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')
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Goldfields-Esperance