Yadhaiganan

The Yadhaigana, also called Yadhaykenu, were an Aboriginal tribe of the eastern coast at the northern tip of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, whose country lay north of the Wuthathi around the later site of Bamaga. Their tongue was a dialect of Uradhi, a Paman language of the Pama-Nyungan family.

Their name was given them by Torres Strait Islanders, in whose language it means talkers or chatterers, a trace of the long maritime trade and contact between the peninsula peoples and the islanders of the strait.

They were the traditional enemies of the Gudang at Cape York's tip and were counted among the warlike tribes of the far north. European ships began sailing the adjacent Torres Strait after the Spanish passage of 1606, and Captain Cook rounded Cape York in 1770.