Wongaibon (NSW)

LocationHeadwaters of Bogan River; on Tigers Camp and Boggy Cowal creeks. At Narromine, Nyngan, Girilambone, Cobar, and Gilgunnia; south to Trundle, only visiting the Wiradjuri territory on the Lachlan River and Little Billabong Creek during very dry times; at Trida; west to Ivanhoe and near Neckarboo Range. The 1940 map showed an incorrectly drafted southern boundary based on the version by Mathews (1905) which included the Lachlan River where they were latecomers and trespassers.
Co-ordinates146°30'E x 32°0'S
Area27,000 sq. m. (70,000 sq. km.)
ReferencesRidley, 1873, 1875; Cameron, 1885, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903; Balfe in Curr, 1887; Obley Magistrates in Curr, 1887; Mathews, 1896 (Gr. 6416), 1898 (Gr. 6468), 1902 (Gr. 6487), 1903 (Gr. 6481), 1904 (Gr. 6451), 1905 (Gr. 6543), 1907 (Gr. 6423); Richardson, 1899, 1910; Cameron in Howitt, 1904; Howitt, 1904; Walker, 1904; Brown, 1918; Radcliffe-Brown, 1930; Tindale, 1940, and MS; Berndt, 1947; Capell, 1956.
Alternative Names['wongai] = no, Wongaibun, Wonghibone, Wonjhibon, Wonjibone, Wongi-bone, Wonghibon, Wonghi, Wungai, Wuzai (z = substitute for ng symbol by Ridley), Wozai, Wo'yaibun (typographical error), Mudall.