Marege' and Kayu Jama were the Macassar names for the fishing areas off Darwin and the Kimberly.
Whatever the local phrase is for "Land Where Every Damn Thing Is Dangerous".
That's a myth, I'm 40 and have not died. Not to say I haven't had some close calls, but a lot of people don't see deadly things from year to year. I did see a fuck-off big tiger snake (3rd deadliest in the world) the other day and an oncoming cyclist meant I couldn't give it a wide berth. But that just means it's the cyclist's fault, I hate cyclists!
"Whatever the local phrase is for "Land Where Every Damn Thing Is Dangerous"
It's the magpies you have to watch out for, vicious homicidal bastards the lot of them.
Regarding names, since many of the likely South Asian discoverers would come from lands much wetter and plusher than the Kimberly and Pilbara, would you expect their names to reflect the differences in landscape and flora? What are Malay, Tamil, Javanese etc phrases for "dry" and "godforsaken"?