The Kambure, more commonly known now as ''Gamberre'', were 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
Kimberley region
The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy Desert, Great Sandy and Tanami Desert, Tanami deserts in t ...
of
Western Australia
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.
Language
The Kambure spoke a dialect of
Wunambal
The Wunambal (Unambal), also known as Wunambal Gaambera, Uunguu (referring to their lands), and other names, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia.
People
The Wunambal were, according to Norma ...
.
Country
Norman Tindal estimated Kambure lands to extend over some around the
Admiralty Gulf
Admiralty Gulf is a gulf in the Kimberley region of Western Australia that opens into the Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth# ...
, excluding the areas around the
Osborne Islands. Their eastern boundary lay about Monger Creek in
Napier Broome Bay. Their southern extension ran along the south rim of the
King Edward River
The King Edward River is a river in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The headwaters of the river rise below Poonjurra Hill and flows in a northerly direction almost parallel with the Kalumburu, Western ...
.
History of contact
An area of Kambure territory had a sacred value for them in their
dreaming yet was thought to require patrolling by the Australian Army. The compromise worked out was to enroll several Kambure boys as army scouts, who, knowing the lie of the land, could assist the special patrols in carrying out their coastal surveillance.
People
The Kambure were a coastal people, who subsisted on marine products. One Kambure
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 ...
lived on
Sir Graham Moore Island.
Alternative names
* ''Kambera''
* ''Kamberange''
* ''Kanbre, Gambre''
* ''Barurungari'' ('upland/plateau people')
* ''Kambumiri''
* ''Purungari'' (a
Worrorra
The Worrorra, also written Worora, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley area of north-western Australia.
The term is sometimes used to describe speakers of the (Western) Worrorra language, and sometimes groups whose traditiona ...
exonym
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meaning 'coast people')
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
Kimberley (Western Australia)