Darambal/ Darumbal/ Dharambal
According to Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, the Darumbal (alternatively Darambal, Dharambal) people's thirteen groups or band societies occupied around 10,400 square kilometres between the Styx River and Raglan Creek, and as far west as Westwood, the foot of Mount Morgan, and the Broad Sound Range. Their territory stretched from Arthur Point, the northern extremity of the Torilla Peninsula on the western side of Shoalwater Bay, south past Yeppoon and Emu Park, across the mouth of the Fitzroy River, and into Keppel Bay. Significant centres within that territory include Marlborough, Yaamba, Rockhampton and Gracemere.
The Bayali were their neighbours to the south, with the Gangulu to the southwest and the Guwinmal to the west. A local group on the Keppel Islands known as Woppaburra or Ganumi may have been part of the Darumbal people, but is given as a separate entity on the Darumbal Corporation website.
Significant subgroups included:
- the Kuinmabra on the western side of Shoalwater Bay, and the Torilla Peninsula
- the Wandu Wangin around Marlborough.
- the Nindybul occupied the Warginburra Peninsula and Townshend Island
- the Danamal around Byfield.
- the Tarumbul, with numerous bands from Yeppoon and Emu Park to the Fitzroy's mouth, and
- the Warumbal to the west of Rockhampton and Gracemere to the foot of the Boomer Range.
Dialects of the Darumbal language included Guwinmal, Karunbara, Rakiwara, and Wapabura.
