The Ngardok 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

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

. Nothing is known of the language, which has been extinct since about WW2.

Country

Norman Tindale calculated their land as extending over . They inhabite
Field Island
in Van Diemen Gulf as well as the scrub and swamplands of the adjacent continental coastal belt between the

South Alligator River Alligator Rivers is the name of an area in an Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia, containing three rivers, the East, West, and South Alligator Rivers. It is regarded as one of the richest biological regions in Australia ...

as far as Farewell Point near the mouth of the East Alligator River.

Alternative names

* ''Ngardulk'' * ''Ngadok'' * ''Ngadug'' * ''Ngadulg'' * ''Ad-dok'' * ''Gnaruk'' * ''A'ragu'' * ''Bimbirik'' (?)

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* * * * * {{authority control Yolngu