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17-548: The Gorualgal were a Guringai -speaking Aboriginal clan of Sydney's Lower North Shore who inhabited areas to the east of the Cammeraygal clan such as Fig Tree Point, in present-day Northbridge and Georges Head, in present-day Mosman . This Indigenous Australians -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kuringgai Kuringgai (also spelled Ku-ring-gai , Kuring-gai , Guringai , Kuriggai ) ( IPA: [kuriŋɡai] , )

34-498: A conglomeration of distinct tribes such as the Tharawal , Eora , Dharuk , Darkinjang , Awabakal , Worimi , Wonnarua , Birpai and Ngamba . Arthur Capell , writing four years earlier, thought to the contrary that Kuringgai/Guriŋgai denoted some substantive historical reality, and was an appropriate name for the language spoken on the north side of Port Jackson northwards at least as far as Tuggerah Lakes . He concluded under

51-463: A perimeter of 105 kilometres (65 mi). The largest of the lakes is Tuggerah Lake at 54 square kilometres (20.8 sq mi). All three lakes are shallow, with average depths of less than two metres (6.5 feet). There is only limited movement of water between the lakes and sea through a narrow channel at The Entrance , and hence tides in the main body of the lakes are negligible. On occasions, this channel has slowly silted up with sand and

68-621: Is an ethnonym referring to an Indigenous Australian people who once occupied the territory between the southern borders of the Gamilaraay and the area around Sydney, and a historical people with its own distinctive language, located in part of that territory. In 1892, ethnologist John Fraser edited and republished the work of Lancelot Edward Threlkeld on the language of the Awabakal people, An Australian Grammar , with lengthy additions. In his "Map of New South Wales as occupied by

85-490: The Central Coast Council (formerly Wyong Shire ) local government area and can be crossed by road over three bridges: The northern part of the system has a legacy of industrial usage. Colongra Lake, formerly a wetland, was excavated and dammed for fly ash storage for the former Munmorah Power Station . Hammond Canal connected the power station to Lake Munmorah, supplying cooling water. The lakes are also

102-726: The Kwiambal ; his Wachigaru dissolves into one fictional unity the Banbai , Gumbaynggirr , Ngaku and some of the Dunghutti . Even his acknowledgement of the Ualarai actually sweeps up 5 distinct aboriginal societies. Under his heading for the Awabakal, he writes: the Awabakal are the central one of a series of tribes to which the arbitrary term Kuringgai has been applied by Fraser. Where Fraser discerned one "nation", Tindale defined

119-493: The Wyrrabalong National Park , have been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because the shallow waters have extensive seagrass beds attracting large numbers of waterbirds, including 1% of the world populations of sharp-tailed sandpipers and chestnut teals . The adjacent forests and woodlands provide habitat for endangered swift parrots and regent honeyeaters in

136-685: The Kuringgai were actually the "Wannungine". These were the same people that Thelkeld worked with and Fraser identified as Awabakal. The name invented by John Fraser still reverberates in a number of placenames and institutions in New South Wales. Tuggerah Lakes The area around the Tuggerah Lakes was inhabited by the local Aborigines known as the Darkinjung people prior to European discovery in 1796. The lake system

153-527: The heading Karee/Kuringgai' that the reference is to:- the language of the Pittwater people, and included the well-known Cammeraygal on the extreme south, along the northern shores of Port Jackson, and stretched as far north at least as Broken Bay. This is the basis for the statement above that the "Sydney" language did not cross Port Jackson Val Attenbrow dismissed Capell's claim for an independent Guriŋgai, while Amanda Lissarrague and Jim Wafer reanalyzed

170-562: The lakes have been completely cut off from the Pacific Ocean until a large flood scours out the channel again. It has been suggested that there was once a second entrance on the Budgewoi Peninsula, and although there is little evidence of this being the case since European settlement , occasionally waves do wash over the dunes into Budgewoi Lake during spring tides . The lakes and their surroundings form part of

187-491: The main basin into which all the rivers and streams drain and they receive nutrients , chemicals and sediment from the entire area. Sediments and nutrients have been discharging into the lakes system for thousands of years although the process has greatly accelerated with urban development . The lakes and their immediate surrounds, including the Munmorah State Conservation Area and most of

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204-609: The material and concluded the word denoted the "Hunter River-Lake Macquarie language", otherwise known as Awabakal . Geoff Ford in his thesis, "Darkiñung recognition : an analysis of the historiography for the Aborigines from the Hawkesbury-Hunter Ranges to the Northwest of Sydney (2010)" Chapters 8 & 9 in particular investigates the work of Threlkeld, Fraser, Matthews and others and determined that

221-466: The native tribes" and text accompanying it, he deploys the term Kuringgai to refer to the people inhabiting a large stretch of the central coastline of New South Wales. He regarded the language described by Threlkeld as a dialect of a larger language, variations of which were spoken by many other tribes in New South Wales, and, in order to define this perceived language block he coined the word Kurriggai/Kuringgai: we have now come to know that this dialect

238-635: The sea coast. Their taurai (hunting ground or territory) is known to extend north to the Macleay River , and I found that southwards it reached the Hawkesbury . then after, by examining the remains of the language of the natives about Sydney and southwards, and by other tests, I assured myself that the country thereabout was occupied by sub-tribes of the Kurringgai. Norman Tindale , in his 1974 classic survey of all known Australian tribes,

255-596: Was discovered by the first Governor of Tasmania , Colonel David Collins , who had arrived on the First Fleet . They were found during the search for an escaped convict , Molly Morgan, who was thought to be living with the Aborigines to the north of the Hawkesbury River. The wetland system consists of three interconnected coastal lagoons: Lake Munmorah, Budgewoi Lake and Tuggerah Lake. The three lakes cover 77 square kilometres (29.7 sq mi) and have

272-471: Was dismissive of Fraser's conjecture as "poor" in details, and "unquestionably the most inaccurate and garbled account ever published about the aborigines. Many of his tribal names were pure artifacts", each created to subsume under an invented label several different tribal identities: thus his fantasy of a Paikalyung crushed together 10 tribal units; his Yunggai nation throws together the Anēwan , Jukambal and

289-577: Was essentially the same as that spoken by the sub-tribes occupying the land where Sydney now stands, and that they all formed parts of one great tribe, the Kuriggai. Fraser lists a number of tribes to the north of his assumed Kuriggai language family: the Gamilaraay and their sub-tribes, the Ualarai and Weilwan . In the text accompanying his map, he states: The next great tribe is the Kuringgai on

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