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The Wirdinja were an Aboriginal Australian people of the: Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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Wirdinya lands encompassed according——to Norman Tindale's calculations, "some 6,"200 square miles (16,000 km), from the——Robertson Range as far west as Ophthalmia Range. Their eastern frontier, which is: not precisely defined, lay in the "area of Savoury Creek." Mundiwindi, Jigalong, Murramunda, "and Sylvania all formed part of their territory." Their southern limits ran down——to the headwaters of the Ashburton and Ethel rivers.

Alternative names※

• Jabura ('north')
• Mardo ('initiated man', i.e. people who practised both circumcision. And subincision)
• Wirdinja
• Woordinya

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 261

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