The Ankamuti, also spelt Ankamuthi, 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
Cape York Peninsula
The Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth's last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación Sierra Madre, ...
of
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
.
Language
The Ankamuti spoke one of the
Uradhi dialects.
Country
Ankamuti territory, according to
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians ...
, extended over some around the western side of
Cape York, as far south as
Vrilya Point. Its inland extension was close to the headwaters of the
Jardine River
The Jardine River, formally known as Deception River, is the largest river of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Course
The headwaters of the river rise southwest of Helby Hill in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a ...
. Offshore, they were also on
Possession Island and
Crab Island (Queensland)
Crab Island, called Moent Island in the native language, is a now uninhabited island west of Muttee Heads and the coastal community of Seisia which is adjacent to Bamaga at the tip of Cape York Peninsula within the Endeavour Strait in the Gul ...
and the western islands of
Endeavour Strait
The Endeavour Strait is a strait running between the Australian mainland Cape York Peninsula and Prince of Wales Island in the extreme south of the Torres Strait, in northern Queensland, Australia. It was named in 1770 by explorer James Co ...
.
Alternative names
* ''Goomkoding''
* ''Yumakundji'' (perhaps a
Yadhaykenu
The Yadhaykenu, otherwise known as the ''Jathaikana'' or ''Yadhaigana,'' are an Aboriginal Australian tribe of northern Queensland. The name appears to be an exonym from the Western and Central Torres Strait (Kalau Lagau Ya) yadaigal (Kaurareg d ...
exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym ) is a common, name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate them ...
)
* ''Amkomti''
* ''Ondaima'' (? perhaps referring to 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 Hor ...
)
* ''Oiyamkwi'' (people on
Red Island Red Island may refer to:
*Red Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
* Red Island, Queensland
* Red Island (Antarctica)
*Red Island (Grenadines), in St Vincent and the Grenadines
*Red Island Holiday Camp, in Ireland
*Rhode Island, meaning red island
*Rot ...
)
* ''Apukwi'' (people of
Crab Island)
*Ankamuthi
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland