The Kalaako (Kalarko) were an

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people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of

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Country

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assigned the Kalaako tribe a reach extending over , running up north from Green Patch and Scaddan to beyond Widgemooltha. It takes in Mount Monger, Golden Ridge, and Burbanks. Their eastern boundary lies some west of Fraser Range, at a site mined for red

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, known in the native language as ''Karkanja''. Their western frontier is around the Bremer Range. The Johnston Lakes, Mount Holland, Barker Lake, Koongornin,

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and Salmon Gums all lie on what is Kalaako territory. The tribes neighbouring the Kalaako are, clockwise from the north, the Maduwongga, the

Tjeraridjal The Tjeraridjal are an indigenous people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Horton treats them as synonymous with the Nyanganyatjara, or it may be that they speak the same dialect of the Western Desert Language. Country Tj ...

(n.e.), the Ngadjunmaia, the

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due south; the

Wudjari The Wudjari were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Noongar cultural group of the southern region of Western Australia. Country The Wudjari's traditional lands are estimated to have extended over some , encompassing the southern coastal ar ...

, the

Njakinjaki The Njakinjaki (Nyaki Nyaki) are an indigenous Noongar people of southern Western Australia, in the Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions. Country Njakinjaki traditional territory embraced some of land. They were east of Lake Grace, at Newdega ...

, and the

Kalamaia The Kalamaia are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. Country According to Norman Tindale, Kalamaia lands stretched over some . Their eastward extension ran to Bullabulling, ...

to the northeast.

Alternative names

* ''Kalarko'' * ''Malba'' (

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, meaning they were circumcised and subincised) Source:

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* * * {{Authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Norseman, Western Australia