The Djankun 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
Far North Queensland
Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns, Queensland, Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stret ...
.
Country
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 ...
, the Djankun had of tribal territory in what is now the state 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 ...
. The northern limits were around
Mount Mulligan
Mount Mulligan is a former mining town and now a rural locality in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Mount Mulligan had "no people or a very low population".
It is the site of the Mount Mulligan mine disaste ...
and
Thornborough, while to the south, they ran to
Almaden. Their western frontier was around
Mungana while the eastern extension ran to
Dimbulah near the headwaters of the
Walsh River
The Walsh River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland, Australia.
The headwaters of the river rise in the locality of Watsonville on the Atherton Tableland approximately north of Herberton and then flow in ...
.
Alternative names
* ''Ngaikungu''
* ''Dyangun''
* ''Chungki''
* ''Dyangunbari''
* ''Djandnandi''
* ''Chunkunburra''
* ''Chunkunberry, Changunberries''
* ''Shanganburra''
* ''Kokotjangun'' (
Kuku Yalanji
The Kuku Yalanji, also known as Gugu-Yalanji, Kuku Yalandji or Kokojelandji, are an Aboriginal Australian people originating from the rainforest regions of Far North Queensland.
Language
The traditional language of the people is Guugu Yaland ...
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 ...
)
* ''Kokomutju'' (northern tribal exonym)
* ''Mutju''
* ''Ngaikungo, Ngaikungo-i''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland