Gamberren

The Kambure, more commonly known as the Gamberre, were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Their country, estimated by Norman Tindale at some 4,400 square kilometres, lay around the Admiralty Gulf, apart from the Osborne Islands, reaching south along the King Edward River.

They spoke a dialect of Wunambal, one of the Worrorran languages. A coastal people who lived on marine products, they kept at least one horde on Sir Graham Moore Island.

Makassan traders began visiting the Kimberley coast between 1669 and 1763, and Gamberre voyagers paddled dugout canoes acquired from them to the offshore islands, where sea cucumber was gathered and cured; Phillip Parker King named the island group in 1819. The neighbouring Worrorra knew the Kambure by an exonym meaning ‘coast people’.