Uutaalnganu

The Uutaalnganu, also called the Night Island Kawadji or sandbeach people, are an Aboriginal group of the north-eastern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, whose home was Night Island and the coastal strip facing it. They spoke Yankonyu, a dialect of the Umpila cluster within the North Cape York Paman languages, and were linked by marriage to the mainland Barungguan clans.

They were seafarers who built double-outrigger wooden canoes for long voyages to outlying reefs, where they hunted dugong and turtles and gathered the eggs of turtles and sea birds. Captain Cook charted these waters in 1770, but the Night Island people remained beyond direct colonial reach until long after the period closed.