A package holiday coach tour in August 2024 went from Broome in Western Australia to Perth. One of the places visited was the Pinnacles, in Nambung National Park, south of Cervantes, about half way between Geraldton and Perth. This would probably be in Amangu country, indicated in green on the map above right. The Pinnacles are a landscape of limestone pillars in profusion extending for what seems square kilometres, commonly about one metre tall but often larger as in this il

Rev. Jakob Wilhelm Günther, 1832 [source: Basel Mission QS30.001.009.01] Reverend James [Jakob Wilhelm] Günther was a German-born missionary, appointed by the Church Missionary Society to its mission in Wellington N.S.W. in August 1837, where he stayed until the mission was disbanded in 1843. During his time in Wellington, Günther compiled Wiradjuri wordlists and studied its grammar. He subsequently became a chaplain to convicts, and later archdeacon at Mudgee.