Melbourne is in the southeastern part of mainland Australia, within the state of Victoria. Geologically, it is built on the confluence of Quaternary lava flows to the west, Silurian mudstones to the east, and Holocene sand accumulation to the southeast along Port Phillip.
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What Aboriginal land is Melbourne on?
The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.
What suburbs are Wurundjeri land?
Before European settlement, the Aboriginal people of the Wurundjeri willum clan lived on the land that now forms the City of Whittlesea and the northern suburbs of Melbourne. They lived on the offshoots of the Yarra River – along the Merri, Edgars and Darebin Creeks – the Plenty River and the Maribyrnong River.
Is it WOUR Wurundg or Wurundjeri?
The Woiwurrung, also spelt Woi Wurrung, Woiwurrong, Woiworung, Wuywurung, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin alliance.
Who created the Wurundjeri country?
The Wurundjeri-willam people of the Kulin Nation are the Traditional Owners of the land that is now known as the City of Yarra. Their relationship with the land extends back tens of thousands of years to when their creator spirit ‘Bunjil’ formed their people, the land and all living things.
Is all of Melbourne Wurundjeri?
The Wurundjeri are an Aboriginal Australian nation of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation.The Wurundjeri are one of several sub-groups or clans of Woiwurrung people who traditionally occupied some of the territory now the site of the city of Melbourne.
What continent is Melbourne in?
Oceania
What Aboriginal land is Croydon Victoria on?
Wurundjeri
We, in the spirit of Reconciliation, acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land now known as the City of Maroondah, where Indigenous Australians have performed age-old ceremonies.
What area of Melbourne is Fitzroy?
140 ha
What Aboriginal land is Richmond Vic on?
Wurundjeri
The Club’s Aboriginal players feature in the video piece filmed in Yarra Park, the land between both the Richmond Football Club and the iconic MCG – all located on the country of the Wurundjeri people.
Which Aboriginal land is Glen Waverley on?
Monash Council acknowledges that we are on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation.
What Aboriginal land is Camberwell on?
The area now known as the City of Boroondara is on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people.
What Aboriginal land is Kew on?
Boroondara LGA has 27 registered cultural heritage places including an Aboriginal historical place, artefact scatters, object collections and scarred trees. Publicly known cultural heritage places include Kew Scarred Tree.
Why is Melbourne called Naarm?
Melbourne’s History
Melbourne is on the traditional lands of the Kulin nation. When visiting or planning your trip to Melbourne, you might come across references to ‘Naarm’ (or ‘Narrm’). This is the Aboriginal place name for the area where the city of Melbourne is located.
What is Australia’s Aboriginal name?
The nations of Indigenous Australia were, and are, as separate as the nations of Europe or Africa. The Aboriginal English words ‘blackfella’ and ‘whitefella’ are used by Indigenous Australian people all over the country — some communities also use ‘yellafella’ and ‘coloured’.
What is the Aboriginal word for Victoria?
Koori
Koori (also spelt koorie, goori or goorie) is a demonym for Aboriginal Australians from the approximate region now known as southern New South Wales and Victoria. The word derives from the Indigenous language Awabakal.
What Aboriginal land is Coburg North on?
Wurundjeri people
The Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation are the Traditional Owners of the land that is now known as the City of Moreland.
What Aboriginal land is Sydney?
Gadigal people
The original Aboriginal inhabitants of the City of Sydney local area are the Gadigal people. The territory of the Gadi (gal) people stretched along the southern side of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) from South Head to around what is now known as Petersham.
What Aboriginal land is craigieburn on?
The Wurundjeri People, who are the traditional landowners of Craigieburn, believe that a superbeing called Bunjil carved humans out of bark and breather life into them. It is believed that Bunjil was responsible for sending these people across the sea to inhabit the land we now call Victoria.
Is Melbourne north or south of Sydney?
Sydney
| Sydney New South Wales | |
|---|---|
| Location | 877 km (545 mi) NE of Melbourne 923 km (574 mi) S of Brisbane 287 km (178 mi) NE of Canberra 3,936 km (2,446 mi) E of Perth 1,404 km (872 mi) E of Adelaide |
| LGA(s) | Various (31) |
| County | Cumberland |
| State electorate(s) | Various (49) |
When did Australia become Oceania?
The term Oceania, originally a “great division” of the world, was replaced by the concept of Australia as a continent in the 1950s.
