title: Tjungundji
text: # Tjungundji
  
  The Tjungundji or Tjongkandji are an Indigenous Australian people of central and western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.
  
  ## Country
  
  The Tjongkandji tribe were known as a Mapoon tribe, whose lands extend along and inland from the Port Musgrave coast over an area of 150 square miles (390 $km^2)$ on the lower Batavia River, extending west of its mouth southwards for some 15 miles, namely from Cullen Point, known in their language, according to Walter Roth's transcription as Tratha-m-ballayallyana to Janie Creek.
  
  ## Alternative names
  
  * Tjungundji/ Tyongandyi/ Chongandji/ Tjongangi/ Tjungundji/
  * Joonkoonjee/Joongoonjie
  * Chunkunji/ Chinganji/
  * Ngucrand (perhaps a horde).
  