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
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]
^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]
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
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]
^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]