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The Lardil people, who prefer to be known as Kunhanaamendaa (meaning people of Kunhanhaa, the traditional name for Mornington Island), [1] are an Aboriginal Australian people and the traditional custodians of Mornington Island in the Wellesley Islands chain in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland.
Mornington Island, also known as Kunhanhaa, is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. It is the northernmost and, at 1,018 km 2 (393 sq mi), [ 1 ] the largest of 22 islands that form the Wellesley Islands group.
The Lardil people, who prefer to be known as Kunhanaamendaa (meaning people of Kunhanhaa, their name for Mornington Island), are an Aboriginal Australian people and the traditional owners of Mornington Island. [11] The Lardil language (also known as Gununa, Ladil), is spoken on Mornington Island and on the northern Wellesley Islands. [3]
The distinction between traditional custodians and traditional owners is made by some, but not all, First Nations Australians. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] On one hand, Yuwibara man Philip Kemp states that he would "prefer to be identified as a Traditional Custodian and not a Traditional Owner as I do not own the land but I care for the land."
Cape Schanck Lighthouse Cape Schanck aerial panorama. April 2024. Pulpit Rock at Cape Schanck. April 2024. Cape Schanck, or Tunnahan (Boonwurrung) is a locality at the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, approximately 72 km (45 mi) south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area.
The town was founded in 1914 [6] as Mornington Island Community, and renamed by the Queensland Place Names Board on 16 January 1982. [2] Gunana or Gununa is a Lardil word. [6] Mornington Island State School opened on 28 January 1975. [7] Gununa Post Office was open by 1982. [8]
A dictionary and grammatical sketch of the language were compiled and published by the Mornington Shire Council in 1997, [12] and the Mornington Island State School has implemented a government-funded cultural education program incorporating the Lardil language. [13]
Some of the traditional owner groups who eventually came to live at Mapoon include the Mpakwithi, Taepithiggi, Thaynhakwith, Warrangku, Wimarangga and Yupungathi peoples. [5] Mapoon was the first of four Presbyterian missions established by the government to curb the abuse of Aboriginal people in the marine industries.