Walubarra (aka walubara, walpoll, wolluparra or gimuy walubara yidinji) is the name for the local Aboriginal Australian group (ie the local Yidiny people speaking group) whom are particularly associated with, and belong to, the foothills and hillslopes beneath those Wet Tropical mountains that encircle and face, from the west, north west, and north, into the Trinity inlet, being country into which the city of Cairns, (Queensland) () has been built
Local Group
A small number of local
Yidiny language language speakers taught the
Linguistics Robert M. W. Dixon that the
Cairns Region and surrounding region's original people (aka
bama) can be identified as members of one or other local groups whom have been named after the territory to which they belong, that is local groups whom have been named by attaching the affix
bara (trans. 'belonging to') to a noun for that terrain to which they are particularly associated via conception, life history and more.
The Walubarra, for instance, had been named in Yidiɲ by predecessors affixing barra to the noun walu (trans. 'side of hill') to identify them as those persons 'belonging to' the 'foothills', away from the main rivers. Other neighbouring Yidiɲ local groupsinclude:
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the Malanbarra (trans. 'belonging to malan ie large flat rock') for the freshwater upper reaches of the Mulgrave River (and the Little Mulgrave) to the south of the Walubarra, where the river flows across worn, flat rocks
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the Gulgibarra (trans 'belonging to gulgi ie sand) for the lower sandy saltwater reaches of the Mulgrave River, further south of the Walubarra
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the Bundabarra (trans. 'belonging to bunda ie mountain) for the mountains and mountain ranges to the immediate west and behind the Walubarra
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the Wadjanbarra aka Warginbara (trans. 'belonging to wargin ie forest) for the forested areas over the mountains (ie on the Atherton Tableland)
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