[PDF] aboriginal name for western australia

Whadjuk, alternatively Witjari, are Noongar (Aboriginal Australian) people of the Western Australian region of the Perth bioregion of the Swan Coastal Plain  Country · Contact history · Social structure · Aboriginal camping sites Autres questions
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  • What do Aboriginals call Western Australia?

    Noongar boodja – country covers the entire south-western portion of Western Australia. The boundary commences on the west coast at a point north of Jurien Bay, proceeds roughly easterly to a point approximately north of Moora and then roughly south-east to a point on the southern coast between Bremer Bay and Esperance.

  • What is Perth's Aboriginal name?

    At the time of European settlement in 1829, areas surrounding what is now central Perth were known as Mooro, Beeloo and Beeliar by the Nyoongar nation – the Aboriginal peoples of the south-west of Western Australia.

  • What was Aboriginal name for Australia?

    There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up 3.3% of the Western Australian (WA) population [1]. Almost 13% of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live in WA [2].
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