Ngardok Explained

The Ngardok were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Nothing is known of the language, which has been extinct since about WW2.

Country

Norman Tindale calculated their land as extending over 200mi2. They inhabited Field Island in Van Diemen Gulf as well as the scrub and swamplands of the adjacent continental coastal belt between the South Alligator River as far as Farewell Point near the mouth of the East Alligator River.

Alternative names

• Ngardulk
• Ngadok
• Ngadug
• Ngadulg
• Ad-dok
• Gnaruk
• A'ragu
• Bimbirik (?)

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . . .
• Discovery of Pottery in North-Eastern Arnhem Land . Berndt . Ronald M. . Berndt . Catherine . Ronald Berndt . Catherine H. Berndt . . 1947 . 77 . 2 . 133–138 . 10.2307/2844477 . 2844477 .
• On the Aboriginal Tribes of the Northern Coast of Australia . Earl . G. Windsor . George Windsor Earl . . 1846 . 16 . 239–251 . 10.2307/1798232 . 1798232 .
• Book: Spencer, Baldwin . Wanderings in wild Australia . Walter Baldwin Spencer . 1928 . . London . PDF .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Ngardok (NT) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/ngardok.htm .