Bundjalungi

The Bundjalung are an Aboriginal Australian people of the far north coast of New South Wales and the south-eastern corner of Queensland. They are not one tribe but a nation of more than fifteen related groups whose dialects belong to the Yugambeh-Bundjalung language family.

Their own traditions trace them to the Three Brothers who came from the sea and landed at Goanna Headland, a place occupied for at least twelve thousand years. Their coast and rivers offered some of the richest hunting and fishing grounds on the continent.

In 1770 James Cook mapped the shore in Endeavour, naming Cape Byron and Mount Warning, which the Bundjalung call Wollumbin, and in 1828 Captain Henry Rous sailed into the Richmond River, the first European to explore it.