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[17] [18] The Wulgurukaba claim to be the traditional owners of the Townsville city area; the Bindal had a claim struck out by the Federal Court of Australia in 2005. [19] James Cook visited the Townsville region on his first voyage to Australia in 1770 but did not land there. Cook named nearby Cape Cleveland, Cleveland Bay and Magnetic(al ...
The Manbarra have not been given legal status as traditional owners of the Palm Islands, as the people known as the Bwgcolman, drawn from over 40 tribes on the mainland and Torres Strait Islands, were forcibly moved to the Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement from 1918 onwards, and it is their descendants (the "historical people", who now inhabit ...
Bohle Plains is situated in the traditional Wulgurukaba Aboriginal country. [ 3 ] The name Bohle Plains comes from the nearby Bohle River , which in turn takes its name from Henry Mackinnon Bohle, who brought cattle to the area in 1863.
Townsville City is situated in the traditional Wulgurukaba Aboriginal country. [5] Townsville City takes its name from Robert Towns, a merchant and entrepreneur, who was a pioneer financial supporter of pastoral development around the Ross River area. [2]
Hermit Park is situated in the traditional Wulgurukaba Aboriginal country. [4] The origin of the suburb name Hermit Park is from the residence of a business owner Leopold Ferdinand Sachs. [2] The Suburban Bowling Club was established in 1923 on the corner of Charters Towers Road and Carr Street, the second to be established in Townsville.
Andrew Ball was one of the first Europeans to explore the Cleveland Bay district, and is acknowledged as the founder of Townsville. In 1864 he was managing Woodstock Station (to the south of Ross River) for pastoralists Robert Towns and John Melton Black (who together owned Jarvisfield and Woodstock cattle runs and Fanning Downs and Victoria Downs sheep stations), when Black asked Ball to ...
Yabulu is situated in the traditional Wulgurukaba Aboriginal country, nearby Nyawigi Aboriginal country. [11] [12] The town takes its name from Yabulu railway station. Yabulu is an Aboriginal word meaning grass. [2] Nickel laterite mining at Greenvale led to the building of the Greenvale railway line to transport ore to a nickel refinery at ...
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."