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AIATSIS Code: L3

AIATSIS reference name: Kaurna


State: SA

Location: Adelaide Plain (Amery 1995)

Cape Jervis to Port Wakefield along eastern shore of Gulf St. Vincent; inland to near Crystal Brook, Snowtown, Blyth, Hoyleton, Hamley Bridge, Clarendon, Gawler, and Myponga; from the east side of the Hummock Range to Red Hill where northern hordes were sometimes known as the Nantuwara. Inland the Jultiwira or stringy bark forests of the Mount Lofty Ranges marked their boundary (Tindale 1974)

The Map in Amery 2000 extends to north of Crystal Brook.

Maps:
Tindale, Norman. 1974. Tribal Boundaries in Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Division of National Mapping, Department of National Development.

Berndt, Ronald , Berndt, Catherine and Stanton, John. 1993. A world that was : the Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia. Carlton, VIC: Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press.

Amery, Rob. 2000. Warrabarna Kaurna! : reclaiming an Australian language. Lisse, Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.


Information as of: 2010-08-31 15:49:52