History: Indigenous > 1835

History of Melbourne pre-colonial settlement: Indigenous (B1834)

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Aboriginal Melbourne - City of Melbourne
⊜ Melbourne
Immerse yourself in rich First Nations culture and 60,000 years of history with our interactive 'Mapping Aboriginal Melbourne' tool. Discover 70 places of interest in Naarm that explore connection...

Batman's Treaty of Melbourne - 1835
⊜ Cunningham Street, Northcote
Since the infamous TREATY was signed on 6th June 1835, the circumstances around the foundation of Melbourne, and who should take credit, have long been matters of dispute. Even the location of...

Charles Grimes - 1802 Port Phillip Bay Survey
⊜ Melbourne
In 1802 the third governor of New South Wales, Governor King, sent the Surveyor General of New South Wales, Charles Grimes to explore King Island, Western Port, and Port Phillip, then the southern...

CSS Shenandoah | 1864 - Melbourne
⊜ Williamstown
CSS Shenandoah | 1864 - Melbourne's Civil War Connection Like most of the world's great cities, Melbourne is full of history, but I wonder how many Melburnians know that a slightly bizarre, and...

Indigenous Suburb Names in Melbourne
⊜ Melbourne
Ten previously forgotten Aboriginal names for 19th century sites and suburbs of Melbourne have been recently unearthed at the Melbourne Museum. These include the names for Fitzroy (Ngár-go),...

Melbourne | Wikipedia
⊜ Melbourne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Melbourne is the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia[11] (although the most populous in its...

Melbourne | Wikipedia | Page 2
⊜ Melbourne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Continued from Melbourne | Wikipedia (Page 1) Housing Melbourne has minimal public housing and high demand for rental housing, which is becoming...

Victoria's First Peoples on the land they made beautiful
⊜ Noorat
We must walk with Victoria's First Peoples on the land they made beautiful. As Victoria pursues justice for its First Peoples, we begin the search for truth by exploring what life was like here...

Wurundjeri Clans
⊜ Melbourne
David Krause, Great Grandson of King Billibellary maintains history should be rewritten as the Wurundjeri "clans"not the Wurundjeri "tribe". The fabricated NTS (Native Title Services) Wurundjeri...