The Tjeraridjal are an

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of the Goldfields-Esperance region of

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. Horton treats them as synonymous with the Nyanganyatjara, or it may be that they speak the same dialect of the

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Country

Tjeraridjal lands, according to Norman Tindale, covered some . Their western borders lay around Kurnalpi and the areas of Lake Yindarlgooda, Piniin, and Karonie. To the east, it extended to the vicinity of Naretha on the margins of the

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. In native terms, their northeastern limits were designated as being at ''Kapi Kirkela'' and ''Tjikarunja.'' Of the ecological transition on the eastern boundary Tindale writes:

the eastern boundary of the Tjeraridjal, near Naretha, is strongly emphasized by the change from sclerophyll forests of mallee and gimlet to myall and bulloak which mark the transition to the vast karst treeless plateau of the Nullarbor Plain.

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* * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Goldfields–Esperance