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navigation, search  The Ngaro People were a seafaring Australian
Aborigine group of people that inhabited the Whitsunday Islands
and coastal regions of Queensland from at least 7000 BC until
1870.[1][2] Ngaro society was destroyed by warfare with traders,
colonists, and the Australian Native Police. The Native Police
Corps forcibly relocated the remaining Ngaro aborigines in 1870
to a "mission" settlement on Palm Island and the lumber mills of
Brampton Island to be "employed" as laborers.[3]  The Vanishing
Ngaro[edit]  The word Ngaro means "miss," "can't see," or
"vanishing" in Maori and Tahitian, modern Polynesian languages
of the south pacific near Australia. As a proper noun, the name
"Ngaro" appears in the names of Polynesian tribes as far away as
Manihiki Island.[4]  Ngaro Ladder Cave Painting. Ngaro Cave
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