Jaminjungi

The Jamindjung, also spelt Jaminjung, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory, whose country lies between the north bank of the Victoria River and the south bank of the Fitzmaurice River, stretching about a hundred miles inland from the Timor Sea.

Norman Tindale estimated their territory at some 7,000 square kilometres, running from the upper and middle Fitzmaurice to the Vambarra range, with its southern limit at Timber Creek. Their language belongs to the Yirram branch of the Mirndi family and is closest to the speech of the Ngaliwurru.

The first European to reach their coastline was Phillip Parker King, who came to the mouth of the Victoria River on 12 September 1819 during his survey of the northern coast.