Yirrganydji
The Yirrganydji (Irukandji) people were the custodians of a coastal strip within Djabugay country— Djabuganjdji on the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia.. They spoke Yirrgay, one of five dialects in the Djabugay language group and lived as fishers along the coast and around the river mouths and islands between the Barron River and Port Douglas. The coastal people were reputedly taller than the neighbouring rainforest dwellers.
According to Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, Irukandji country extended over 520 square kilometres along the coast from Cairns to the Mowbray River at Port Douglas and inland around the Barron River estuary as far as Redlynch.
A report by Police Commissioner William Parry-Okeden at the end of the 19th century suggested the Yirrganydji were close to extinction as a distinct tribal identity. By the 1950s, remembrance of their existence had almost died out.
