The Wanyuru 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_ ...
.
Name
The
ethnonym
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is that recorded by Tindale, though the linguist
Robert Dixon later affirmed that no tribal name is known for the people who spoke the Wañjurru language.
Language
''Wañurr(u),'' together with
Yidiny and Gunggay, the latter spoken by the
Gungganyji, were all dialects of the one language.
Country
In
Norman Tindale's estimation the Wanjuru's tribal lands covered some , from an area south of where the
Russell River debouches into the
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down the Australian northeast coast. Most of it is protected by the Fre ...
down t
Cooper Pointand
Innisfail. Like the other rainforest dwellers in this area, the
Kunja, their inland extension lay about
Babinda.
Alternative name
* ''Wanjar.''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland