The Ithu were an
indigenous Australian people of the eastern coast of the
Cape York Peninsula,
northern Queensland.
Country
The Ithu's territory, including
Noble Island
Noble Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in the Howick Group National Park and is about 100 km south-east of Cape Melville, Queensland. It is around 30 hectares or 0.3 square km in size.
It was the home of the indigeno ...
, the adjacent reefs, and islands, such as
Howick Howick may refer to:
Places
*Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa
**Howick Falls
* Howick, Lancashire, a small hamlet (Howick Cross) and former civil parish in England
*Howick, New Zealand
**Howick Historical Village
**Howick (New Zealand electo ...
within the
Howick island group opposite
Barrow Point.
People
Very little has survived regarding the Ithu, and
Norman Tindale suggested that they might possibly have been 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 Hord ...
of the
Mutumui.
Alternative name
* ''Wurkuldi.''
Notes
Citations
Sources
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland