Girramay
Speaking the most southerly dialect of Dyirbal, the Girramay people occupied around 2600 square kilometres of rainforest and open forest around Rockingham Bay and Cardwell. Their northern boundary ran close to the upper Murray River and the Cardwell Range, and their territory also included inland areas along the Herbert River. The ethnonym stems from jir:a ("man").
Bark from trees within Girramay territory was beaten into cloth, which was used in the "rain shields" neighbouring tribes referred to as keramai.
Sacred sites, including Yungigali, where a dog was transmogrified into a rock in a Dreamtime legend, were devastated after the American King Ranch corporation acquired leases over a large part of Girramay country from the Queensland Government,
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Cardwell
Cardwell Range
Dyirbal
Herbert River
Murray River
Rockingham Bay
