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Kuringgai

Kuringgai (also spelt Ku-ring-gai, Kuring-gai, Guringai) is a name referring to an Indigenous Australian people of New South Wales.

History of the term

Fraser?s 1892 map. Kuringgai is marked VIII.

In 1892, John Fraser used the term Kuringgai ( in his phonetic notation) to refer to the people inhabiting a large stretch of the central coastline of New South Wales. According to Fraser, the Kuringgai were bordered by the Wachigari and the Paikalyung to the north, the Kamalarai to the northwest, the Wiradhari to the west and the Murrinjari to the south.

However, Norman Tindale would later say in 1974 that ?the Awabakal are the central one of a series of tribes to which the arbitrary term Kuringgai has been applied by Fraser.? He divided the area Fraser labelled Kuringgai into several tribes, including the Tharawal, Eora, Dharuk, Darkinjang, Awabakal, Worimi, Birpai, Ngamba, and others.