Nimanburu

The Nimanburu were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley, one of the three traditional owner groups of King Sound. Their lands ran from Repulse Point south to the mouth of the Fraser River and inland to its headwaters. Their language was a Western Nyulnyulan tongue, described by neighbouring informants as a heavy dialect of Warrwa.

Although a coastal people, the Nimanburu did not take to the sea or use the rafts common among their King Sound neighbours. The first European in their waters was William Dampier, who explored King Sound in the Cygnet in 1688; Phillip Parker King surveyed the same coast in 1821 and named Cygnet Bay.