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The Boonwurrung, [2] [3] also spelt Bunurong or Bun wurrung, are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in the Australian state of Victoria. Their territory includes part of what is now the city and suburbs of Melbourne.
The Boon Wurrung (or Bunurong) peoples of the Kulin nation lived along the Eastern coast of Port Philip Bay for over 20,000 years before white settlement. [2] Their mythology preserves the history of the flooding of Port Phillip Bay 10,000 years ago, [3] and its period of drying and retreat 2,800–1,000 years ago (see: Prehistory of Australia). [4]
Inland Bunurong boundaries are the watersheds that flow into Port Phillip, Western Port and Bass coastline. [ 4 ] In June 2021, the boundaries between the land of two of the traditional owner groups in greater Melbourne , the Wurundjeri and Boon wurrung/Bunurong, were agreed between the two groups, after being drawn up by the Victorian ...
Boundary disputes have existed among a number of parties, including the Wathaurong people to the west, the Dja Dja Wurrung to the north-west, the Taungurong people to the north, the Gunai/Kurnai to the east and the Boon wurrung/Bunurong people to the south. The dispute over territorial boundaries continued to be challenged even after being set ...
Sewn and incised possum-skin cloak of Wurundjeri origin (Melbourne Museum). The Woiwurrung tribes would have been aware of the Europeans, through the close relationship to the Boon wurrung people of the coast who came into contact with the Baudin expedition on the French ship Naturaliste during 1801, and then the British settlement at Sullivan Bay in 1803, near modern-day Sorrento, Victoria.
yabber = to talk (this word, with the same meaning, has made its way into informal English) [12] yarra = flowing, (also means "hair"). It is thought to have been mistakenly given to the Yarra River (referred to as Birrarrung in the Woiwurrung language) by an early settler who asked a boy what it was called, who was confused and answered "it is ...
The area was one of the Bunurong's regular places of encampment, but was also used by "anyone travelling to and from Melbourne, even though the route was outside their own country". The Bunurong continued to use the area after the killings, as in 1843 "Worawen" was listed as the place of death of Worrowurk, a 28-year-old man.
English Name Year Chinese Name Colour Old Master Q: 1981: 老夫子 Old Master Q Water Tiger: 1982: 老夫子水虎傳 Fox and the Bear: 1983: Old Master Q: 1983: 老夫子 Passing the Bridge: 1983: 過橋 The Butterfly Spring: 1983: 蝴蝶泉 Monkey King Conquers the Demon, a.k.a. The Monkey King and the Skeleton Ghost: 1984 - 1985 ...