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-26.8897108
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151.6016194
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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

Mt Mowbullan signalling north and west, from Pt Turbayne signalling to the east, from Coyne's lookout, signalling to the south... (Possibly) the
balds (were) from bonfires for smoke signalling"
- J C Bennie, 'The Bunya Mountains Early Feasting Ground of the Blacks,
The Dalby Herald, 1931, p 2

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td0095
Source
Kerkhove, Ray The Great Bunya Gathering, Early Accounts Enoggera, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/8244371/The_Great_Bunya_Gathering_Early_Accounts