Wardal
{{see also|Wardal language}}
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The Wardal were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Mid West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.
Country
Norman Tindale calculated by inference that the Wardal's lands covered around {{convert|15,000|mi2|km2}}, from Lake Carnegie running west and northwest to Well 11 (Goodwin Soak) on the Canning Stock Route. Their southern boundaries lay round Lake Nabberu while their westernmost extension appears to have gone as far as the Old Bald Hill Station near Beyond Bluff.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=259}}
Name
Wardal appears to mean 'west' and by extension, 'westerners'.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=259}}
Alternative names
Notes
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Sources
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- {{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia
| date = 14 May 2024
| publisher = AIATSIS
| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia
| ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}}
}}
- {{Cite web| title = Tindale Tribal Boundaries
| publisher = Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia
| url = https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/globalassets/pdf-files/maps/state/tindale_daa.pdf
| date = September 2016
| ref = {{harvid|TTB|2016}}
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Wardal (WA)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| year = 1974
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| publisher = Australian National University Press
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wardal.htm
| archive-date = 20 March 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wardal.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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Category:Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia