Jukuni

The Djukun, or Jukun, are an Aboriginal people of the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, whose country centres on Broome and the shores of Roebuck Bay, shared with the Yawuru. Their language is an Eastern Nyulnyulan tongue closely related to Yawuru.

The bay's rich tidal flats drew seasonal gatherings of neighbours to exchange gifts, arrange marriages and settle disputes; shellfish middens still mark old camp sites along its red pindan cliffs. In 1699 the English navigator William Dampier explored this coast in HMS Roebuck, giving the bay its name.