The Nyuwathayi (Njuwathai) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Cape York PeninsulaofQueensland. They may have spoken the Yinwum language, based on their location, but there is no data.[1]
The extent of Nyuwathai lands has been estimated to encompass some 700 square miles (1,800 km2), primarily around the middle Wenlock River.[2]
By the time Ursula McConnel did her ethnographic surveys in the late 1920s and 1930s, it appeared that the Nyuwathai gathered with the Atjinuri and Yinwum at the Moreton Telegraph Station.[3]