Darumbali

The Darumbali, or Darumbal, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the central Queensland coast, whose country of some ten thousand square kilometres ran from Shoalwater Bay to Yeppoon, taking in the mouth of the Fitzroy River and the Keppel Bay islands and reaching inland to the Boomer Range, Rockhampton and Gracemere.

They were formed of about thirteen band societies, one branch, the Warabal, keeping to the country at the foot of the Boomer Range. Their Darumbal language, with its Guwinmal, Karunbara and Rakiwara dialects, belonged to the Pama-Nyungan family and was sharply distinct from the neighbouring Bayali tongue, with which it shared little basic vocabulary.

On 27 May 1770 James Cook's Endeavour anchored in their waters and Cook named Keppel Bay after Admiral Augustus Keppel.