Yirrganydji

Yirrganydji people
Aka: Irukandji
Wet Tropics bioregion
Language
Language Family:Pama–Nyungan
Language Branch:Yidinic
Language Group:Djabugay
Group Dialect:Yirrgay
Area (approx. 500 km²)
BioRegion:Wet Tropics
Location:Far North Queensland
Coordinates:16°45′S 145°40′E / 16.750°S 145.667°E / -16.750; 145.667
Rivers
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The Yirrganydji (Irrukandji) people are an Indigenous Australian people of Queensland who trace their descent from the Irukandji and, as such, are the original custodians of a narrow coastal strip within Djabugay country that runs northwards from Cairns, Queensland to Port Douglas. Their traditional lifestyle was that of fishers along this coastal strip and around the river mouths, islands and seas between the Barron River and Port Douglas.

  1. ^ Bottoms 1999, p. ?.