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NOONGARS – EARLY INHABITANTS OF AUSTRALIA

The local indigenous people are called Noongar and they have lived in the South West of WA for over 40,000 years.  They were also known as the Bibbulmun people and lived west of the Circumcision Line or Song Line which runs from just south of Geraldton to west of Esperance.  Noongar is the Bibbulmun word for Man.

The Waagle, or Rainbow Serpent, is central to the Noongar culture.  The Rainbow Serpent gave life and sustenance to the people who in return became the caretakers of the land.  The aboriginals made shelters, called mia- mia, which were made from paperbark stripped from trees.  They would hunt for kangaroo, emu, lizard or other wildlife with their spears and boomerangs and camp near a billabong.