[1] Gugu Badhun country is approximately 220 km northwest of Townsville and includes the small township of Greenvale as well as a number of pastoral stations.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date description of the nation is found in the book Gugu Badhun: People of the Valley of Lagoons,[2] published in 2017.

Norman Tindale estimated that the Gugu Badhun, or as he wrote it, Kokopatun, occupy roughly 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) of territory lying east of the Great Dividing Range.

He asserted that their northern boundary lay at Mount Garnet, and that their eastward extension stretched as far as Gunnawarra and the Herbert River.

[5]The landscape of Gugu Badhun country was formed through lava flows from Kinrara volcano, which erupted 7000 years ago.

The year-round water supply maintains a diverse array of birdlife, kangaroos and other mammals, and today, beef cattle.

Large birds include emu and bustards, while apostle-birds, honeyeaters and parrots provide a noisy background to this archetypal Australian bush setting.

[8] GBAC holds and exercises the native title rights and interests as the agent of the Gugu Badhun People.

In the 1930s and 1940s, many Gugu Badhun people who had remained on country decided to move to the nearby towns and cities for education and employment opportunities.