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Murunitja (WA)

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Location: Northern margin of Nullarbor Plain from Naretha to about north of Loongana; northward for about 100 miles (160 km.); at Rawlinna and Walawuluna Rockhole. The Miming word for a fat or stout person is ['murun]. The men of this tribe tend to be of the heavy Murrayian physical type.
Co-ordinates: 126°0'E x 30°15'S
Area: 11,000 sq. m. (28,600 sq. km.)
References: Williams in Curr, 1886; Davidson, 1938; Tindale, 1940; Berndt, 1959.
Alternative Names: Mooroon, Murnidja, ? Mara, Kogara (means 'east,' hence by extension 'easterners').
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