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First Nations Information

The First Nations people from this area are Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi and Jinibara.

The Kabi Kabi people of the Sunshine Coast are the coastal or saltwater people and took their name from the pale honey gathered from the eucalypts of the hinterland. The group was made up of a number of smaller tribes including the Nalbo, Kabi, Dallambara and Undanb, inhabiting the region from Elimbah Creek in the south, to Cooloola National Park in the north.

The Jinibara people of the Sunshine Coast are the inland or mountain people and their names means “people of the lawyer vine” (jinni = lawyer vine; bara = people), thus referring to the mountainous nature of their country where the lawyer vine grows. The Jinibara People’s traditional land embraces the Blackall Ranges and the area west of Old Gympie Road. The Jinibara People consist of four sub-groups or clans, being the Dungidau centred on Kilcoy, Villeneuve and Mt Archer area, the Nalbo of the Blackall Range and much of the Glasshouse Mountains area, the Dala between Woodford and the Blackall Range, and the Garumngar of the rolling country between the Brisbane River and Mt Crosby and what today is the southern edge of Brisbane Forest Park.

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