Amarakan

The Amurdak, also written Amarak or Ngamarak, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory, keepers of the coastal country and hinterland around the eastern shore of Van Diemen Gulf. Their traditional lands ran over about 2,300 square kilometres, from Murgenella and Cooper creeks in the north to the East Alligator River in the south.

Their language, also called Wardadjbak, belonged to the Iwaidja family and had two dialects, Urrik and Didjurra. In Cobourg Peninsula Dreamtime lore they descend from the children the founding woman Imberombera left at Mamul near Cooper Creek, whom she told to speak Amurdak and to gather the edible bulb murarowa.