Yinggardan

The Yinggardan are an Aboriginal people of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, their country lying between the Gascoyne and Wooramel Rivers and running inland from the northern edge of Shark Bay. Their Kartu language had a northern and a southern dialect.

The Mandi called them and their neighbours the Baiyungu and Maia by the shared name Kakarakala, meaning easterners, while the Nhantan held them in awe as rain-making sorcerers. They entered European records through the Dutch ship Batavia, wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos in 1629: the survivors' journal mentions the mainland people, and two convicted mutineers marooned on the coast may have ended their lives among local groups.