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The '''Pontunj''', also called the '''Yankonyu''', are a contemporary [[Indigenous Australian|Indigenous Australian people]] of the eastern [[Cape York Peninsula]] in northern [[Queensland]].
==Country==
The Pontunj overlap with the [[Kawadji]], of which Yankonyu is considered by [[Norman Tindale]] to be an alternative name, though he treats the Pontunj as distinct from the [[Kawadji]] people of Night Island and the coastal stretch opposite. Their territory covered some 300 sq. miles, running from Cape Weymouth southwards to the coast just to the north of [[Night Island (Queensland)|Night Island]] and to the [[Lockhart River (Queensland)|Lockhart River]] and [[Lloyd Island|Lloyd Bay]] areas.{{sfn|Tindale|1974}}
==Alternative names==
* Jangkonju
* Yankonya.{{sfn|Tindale|1974}}
==Notes and references==
===Explanatory notes===
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===Notes===
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===References===
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*{{Cite book| title = Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait
| last = Haddon | first = A. C.
| author-link = A. C. Haddon
| year = 2011 | orig-year = First published 1935
| volume = 1
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XpMczQt7_BgC&pg=PA266
| isbn = 978-0-521-17986-7
}}
*{{Cite book| chapter = The Sandbeach People and Dugong hunters of Eastern Cape York Peninsula: property in land and sea country
| last1 = Rigsby | first1 = Bruce
| last2 = Chase | first2 = Athol
| author1-link = Bruce Rigsby
| title = Customary marine tenure in Australia
| editor1-last = Peterson | editor1-first = Nicolas
| editor2-last = Rigsby | editor2-first = Bruce | editor2-link = Bruce Rigsby
| year = 2014
| publisher = [[Sydney University Press]]
| pages = 307–350
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yr-6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA311
| isbn = 978-1-743-32389-2
}}
*{{Cite journal| title = The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York
| last = Thomson | first = Donald F.
| author-link = Donald Thomson
| journal = Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
| year = 1933 | volume = 63 | pages = 453–537
| doi = 10.2307/2843801 | jstor = 2843801
}}
*{{Cite book| chapter = Pontunj (QLD)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| year = 1974
| publisher = [[Australian National University Press]]
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/pontunj.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples of Queensland}}
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[[Category:Aboriginal peoples of Queensland]]