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Stories in Stone: Aboriginal Oral Traditions of Volcanic Impacts in Northeastern Australia
Geoheritage, Vol.17(2), pp.1-16
2025
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Abstract
Throughout Australia, oral traditions exist that encode memories of catastrophic and impactful events and landscape changes such as floods, meteor impacts and volcanic eruptions. In pre-colonization times, before the year 1788, people who lived in the volcanically active areas of northeastern Australia created many stories that describe some of the effects of volcanism in detail. From an analysis of these stories, focused on the McBride Volcanic Province and the Atherton Tablelands, this paper examines the nature of volcanic activity that occurred here within the past nine thousand years and the impacts it had on Aboriginal society. The implications of such research are demonstrated through a case study of the crater and long lava flow of the Kinrara Volcano, formed about seven thousand years ago, which lies at the heart of Gugu Badhun (Aboriginal) country. Five associated oral traditions are analysed to show insights into early understanding of volcanism and how modern risk management can benefit from these perspectives.
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- Title
- Stories in Stone: Aboriginal Oral Traditions of Volcanic Impacts in Northeastern Australia
- Authors
- Leigh Franks (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyPatrick Nunn - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyAdrian McCallum - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringJanine Gertz - The University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Geoheritage, Vol.17(2), pp.1-16
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12371-025-01116-2
- ISSN
- 1867-2485; 1867-2477
- Copyright note
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Grant note
- University of the Sunshine Coast have provided RTP Tuition Fees Offset for First Author.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; Cancer Research Cluster; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991128306202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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