Map of Aboriginal Australia
The Department of Education and Children's Services acknowledges and respects the traditional custodians whose ancestral lands are represented in South Australia. We acknowledge the deep feelings of attachment and relationship of Aboriginal people to country.
Click a relevant part of Australia below to access a PDF Aboriginal Australia map segment. Allow a minute or so.
You can also download the
full map of Australia as a PDF (1.16MB)
To find out more about Aboriginal languages generally, an excellent illustrated book and CD, which can be borrowed from the
Aboriginal Education Resource Centre, is
Australia's Indigenous Languages (1996), SSABSA Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia, Wayville, SA.
AcknowledgementAboriginal Australia Wall Map, D R Horton, Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, 1996
Disclaimer and Warning:Not suitable for use in native title and other land claims
This map indicates only the general location of large groupings of people which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. Boundaries are not intended to be exact. For more information about the groups of people in a particular region contact the relevant land councils.
