Giya

Giya names the Aboriginal country around Proserpine and the adjoining Queensland coast, rather than a town founded by European settlers. The people also appear in written accounts as Gia, Kia and Bumbarra. Their language is associated with the Biri group. Later ethnographic mapping placed their country between Bowen, St Helens and Mount Dalrymple, extending inland to the Clarke Range and including Repulse Bay and Gloucester Island.