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3 unusual facts about Gandangara people


Gandangara people

The Gundungara people were apparently badly affected by an influenza epidemic of 1846/47, which was particularly severe.

Ngunnawal language

Ngunnawal or Gundungurra is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngunnawal and Gandangara peoples.

Yuin–Kuric languages

Ngunnawal, also known as Gundungurra (Gundungura, Gudungura, or Gandangara), spoken by the Ngunnawal people and Gandangara people in south-eastern New South Wales and what is now Canberra.


Elderslie, New South Wales

The area now known as Elderslie was probably originally home to the Tharawal people, based in the Illawarra region, although the Western Sydney-based Darug people and the Southern Highlands-based Gandangara people were also known to have inhabited the greater Camden area.


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