The Goeng or Gureng were an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. They lived in the area of the area of present-day Gladstone.

Country

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The traditional tribal lands of the Goeng, according to Norman Tindale, stretched over an estimated 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2), running from the southern end of Port Curtis to near mouth of Baffle Creek. Their inland extension went as far as the headwaters of the Kolan River, and took in the ManyPeaks Range. Their land also included Lowmead and one of their borders touched Miriam Vale.[1]

Controversy

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John Mathew identified the Goeng and the Goreng goreng as the same tribe, though the former is coastal and the latter an inland tribe.[a] Tindale noted and criticised the conflation.[1]

Alternative names

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  • Goonine
  • Yungkono
  • Meeroni
  • Maroonee, Meerooni
  • Wide Bay tribe. (Palmer, 1884)
  • ?Yamma[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ As the accompanying sketch map shows, the neighbours of the Gurang tribe were the Meerooni and Toolooa on the north, the Tarambol on the west, and the Dappil and Wakka on the south. The Gurang territory covered all the basin of the Upper Burnett, from about Gayndah northward, and, relying upon the virtual identity of Curr's Baffle Creek vocabulary with that of the Upper Burnett, in both of which the negative is gurang, the inference seems safe that it embraced the basin of Baffle Creek also, and, therefore, extended right to the coast where that creek debouches.ì[2]

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c Tindale 1974, p. 168.
  2. ^ Mathew 1914, p. 435.

Sources

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