The Ngulungbara were an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...
people or clan of
Fraser Island in the state of
Queensland
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, possibly of the
Butchulla people.
Country
The Ngulingbara's status as an independent tribe has been contested, since some authorities consider them to have been a
horde
Horde may refer to:
History
* Orda (organization), a historic sociopolitical and military structure in steppe nomad cultures such as the Turks and Mongols
** Golden Horde, a Turkic-Mongol state established in the 1240s
** Wings of the Golden Hord ...
of the
Butchulla, since the -''bara'' suffix in their
ethnonym
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is suggestive of a clan grouping. They occupied a sector of
Fraser Island north of Boomerang Hill and, in
Norman Tindale's estimate, inhabited an area of some .
Alternative names
* ''Olongbura''
* ''Gnoolongbara''
* ''Koolaburra''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland