Ringaringa (QLD)

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Location: On Hamilton River south of Hamilton and Warenda; west to Boulia; on Burke River southwest to Marion Downs; east to near Lucknow. Authority for the given spelling is B. Blake.

Co-ordinates: 140°10'E x 23°0'S

Area: 2,600 sq. m. (6,800 sq. km.)

References: Lett in Howitt, 1884; Collins and McLean in Curr, 1886; Roth, 1897; Giglioli, 1911; Davidson, 1938; Tindale, 1940; Blake, 1969 MS.

Alternative Names: Ringoringo, Ringu-ringu, Ringa-ringaroo (not Rungo Rungo), Yuntauntaya, Njuntauntaya.

Inventory Listings

Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'

Item AA 338/1/37 - 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'

Item AA 338/15/40 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 1.'

Item AA 338/18/21 - Cloncurry (3233)

Item AA 346/4/20 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition sociological, anthropological and ACER data cards

Item AA 689/9/16 - Harvard and Adelaide Universities Expedition, Anthropological Data Cards, with Sociological Photographs attached. 1938-39.