The Ngormburr, also known as Murumburr
and other variants, are an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 year ...
people of the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
.
Country
The Ngormbur are thought to have had approximately of land located between the
West and South Alligator rivers, with an inland extension that ran as far as Bamboo Creek.
[
The area is now in ]Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia, southeast of Darwin. It is a World Heritage Site. Kakadu is also gazetted as a locality, covering the same area as the national park, with 313 people recorded l ...
, and the people are part of a group to whom native title
Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to that land by another colonising state. The requirements of proof for the recognition of ab ...
was granted in March 2022.
Language
Their language was or is the Ngormbur language.
Alternative names
* ''Ngorm-bur''
* ''Ngumbu''
* ''Gnornbur''
* ''Ngorbur''
* ''Oormbur''
* ''Corm-bur''
* ''Koarnbut''
* ''Ambukuda''
* ''Ambugula''
* ''Numbugala''
* ''Nambuguja''
Notes
Citations
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory
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