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Nyuwathayi

Aboriginal Australian people

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ48785113 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Nyuwathayi (Njuwathai) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland.

They may have spoken the Yinwum language, based on their location, but there is no data.

Country

The extent of Nyuwathai lands has been estimated to encompass some 700 square miles (1,800 km2), primarily around the middle Wenlock River.

By the time Ursula McConnel did her ethnographic surveys in the late 1920s and 1930s, it appeared that the Nyuwathai gathered with the Atjinuri and Yinwum at the Moreton Telegraph Station.

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The public source identifies “Nyuwathayi” as aboriginal Australian people. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nyuwathayi, Aboriginal and Australian.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nyuwathayi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.