Lamalaman

The Lamalama, then more often called the Bakanambia or Wanbara, are an Aboriginal people of the eastern base of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, whose country centred on the mangrove flats and river mouths of Princess Charlotte Bay, rich in dugong, barramundi and waterbirds. Their speech belonged to the Lamalamic group of Paman languages within the Pama-Nyungan family, together with the closely related tongues of neighbouring peoples such as the Umpithamu, recorded in older sources as Umbindhamu.

The coast was little known to Europeans until a British naval survey under Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys named Princess Charlotte Bay in 1815; the upheavals that later fused the Lamalama with their neighbours into a single community came only after the period.