Yellagonga

{{Short description|Leader of the Whadjuk Noongar}}

{{Use Australian English |date=May 2025}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{seealso|Aboriginal history of Western Australia}}

Yellagonga (d. 1843) was a leader of the Whadjuk Noongar on the north side of the Swan River. Colonists saw Yellagonga as the owner of this area. However, land rights were also traced through women of the group. Yellagonga could hunt on wetlands north of Perth because of his wife Yingani's connections to that country.{{cite news |title=Death of the King of Perth |date=1843-06-10 |page=2 |work=The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal |volume=11 |issue=540 |location=Western Australia |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article644356 |access-date=2025-05-25 |via=National Library of Australia }}{{cite book|last1=Whish-Wilson|first1=David|title=Perth|date=2013|publisher=NewSouth|isbn=9781742241623|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8TwNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT15|access-date=18 March 2015}}

In 1843 the settler press reported that "the mild, amiable Yella-gonga acknowledged by the natives as the possessor of vast tracts of land between Perth and Fremantle, is no more. He fell from a rock on the river's bank, and was drowned".{{cite news |title=Swan River |date=23 August 1843 |page=2 |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225008111 |work=Port Phillip Gazette |volume=5 |issue=480 |location=Victoria, Australia |access-date=25 May 2025 |via=National Library of Australia }}