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Before Cook - North Coastal - view
Guringai speakers (some of whom called themselves by the clan names below) met the first fleet when it arrived in 1788 and they were the first Indigenous people in Australia to resist Phillip’s fleet. They inhabited the north shore of Sydney Harbour, living along the coast from Kirribilli then north to Manly up along the northern beaches to Broken Bay and as far as Wyong. Inland they extended to the Lane Cove River. The word for man or person is kuri (Koori) and kuringga , the possessive means ‘belonging to kuri’. Ngai (ng/guy) means ‘woman’. Within the language area were many tribal names such as Garigal, Gayamaygal, Gai-mariagal and Borogegal.
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
The Garigal (Carigal, Karigal) mentioned by the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld, inhabited the south shore of the Hawkesbury River (Deeriban). Willemerring who speared Governor Phillip was from this clan.
The Cannalgal inhabited the area of Manly Beach and the coast to Dee Why.
Before Cook - North Coastal - view
The Borrogegal.yuruey were recorded as living at Bradleys Head. The French artist Nicolas Petit identified a man in his drawings as Cour-rou-bari-gal a Koori from Boregegal clan.
1765 - North West - view
Wollombi
1770 - South West - view
Botany Bay
1770 - South West - view
Port Hacking
1770 - South West - view
Shoalhaven River (Nowra)
1770 - South West - view
Upper Blue Mountains
1770 - South West - view
Jamison and Burragorang Valleys towards Goulburn
1770 - North West - view
Broken Bay
1778 - South West - view
Gwea
1786 - North West - view
Brisbane Waters