Kuku Kulunggur

See also: Kokokulunggur language

The Kokokulunggur are an indigenous Australian people of North Queensland.^[1]

Country

Traditional lands of the Aboriginal peoples around Cairns

In Norman Tindale's estimation their traditional lands covered some 300 square miles (780 km²), encompassing the area around Port Douglas and Mossman north to Daintree. Their inland extension was around Mount Carbine.^[2][3]

History of contact

Cook Sailed past the Kokokulunggur in 1770 before being wreaked near Cooktown, and there was later some conflict between the Kokokulunggur and early pastoralists.

Alternative names

• Koko-yalung
• Ngarlkajee (Wakara exonym).^[3]

Notes

Citations

1. AIATSIS.
2. Wood 2016, p. 355.
3. Tindale 1974, p. 176.

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
• Richards, F. (1926). Customs and language of the Western Hodgkinson aboriginals. Vol. 8. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. pp. 249–265.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kokokulunggur (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press.
• Wood, Ray (2016). "The problem of 'tribal names' in eastern Australia:The Kuku Yalanji example". In Verstraete, Jean-Christophe; Hafner, Diane (eds.). Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 337–360. ISBN 978-9-027-26760-3.