the pitapita's precise geographical borders are not known, since the earliest detailed account of them, by walter roth, included numerous subtribes and hordes in a somewhat confusing presentation. norman tindale remarked that the precise tribal distribution was impossible to determine on the basis of roth's data but that their area was in the present day shire of boulia, extending from fort william in the north, through boulia and some 50 miles south of the district, suggesting a territorial range of roughly .