The Olkolo or Koko-olkola'[1] are an Indigenous Australian people of central and eastern Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.
[1] Olkola belongs to the Kunjen branch of the Southwestern Paman languages, as is mutually intelligible with Uw Oykangand, one of the other dialects of that group.
The Olkolo are the traditional owners of some 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2) extending from the Middle Coleman River, as far south as Crosbie River.,[2] and including the western margins of the Quinkan region.
During the dry season, they would occasionally move inland to cull vegetables and timber, but otherwise spent the major part of the year camped on the shores.
One descendant, Willy Long of Laura recalled several decades later a massacre, from which his parents survived, which took place by 40 troopers under Sub-Inspector Urquhart from the Musgrave police station.