Dharawal
| aka: Dharawal, Darawal, Turawal, Thurawal, Turuwul, Five Islands tribe, Shoalhaven tribe, Tharawal (AIATSIS), nd (SIL) | |
Sydney Basin bioregion | |
| Hierarchy | |
|---|---|
| Language family: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Language branch: | Yuin–Kuric |
| Language group: | Yora |
| Group dialects: | Tharawal |
| Area | |
| Bioregion: | Sydney Basin |
| Location: | Sydney and Illawarra, New South Wales |
| Coordinates: | 34°S 151°E / 34°S 151°E |
| Rivers | Shoalhaven |
| Notable individuals | |
| Bundel Gogy Dharug Bill Worrall Wagin Dharug Yugur Arawarra Rosie Russell Jack Carpenter Captain Brooks (Munnag) Tullimbah Biyarung (Biddy Giles)Dharug Joe Anderson Broughton (Toodwik) Broger Johnny Crook (Yunbai) John Pigeon (Warroba) Stewart (Nillang) Emma Timbery | |
Dharawal is a term referring to the groups of Aboriginal Australian people who shared the Dharawal language. Traditionally, they lived in defined hunter–fisher–gatherer family groups or clans with ties of kinship, along the coastal area through what is now the Wollongong, Port Kembla, and Nowra regions of New South Wales.