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The Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station or Wallaga Lake Station, [4] was an Aboriginal reserve near the lake, was established in 1891 by the Aborigines Protection Board of New South Wales (APB). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It was categorised as an "Aboriginal station" or "managed reserve", which was a type of reserve established by the APB from 1883 onwards that ...
Thomas grew up on the Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Station, an Aboriginal reserve run by the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board, where he attended the tiny local school until he was eight. Thomas would say of this time: "All I was taught at school was to knit, sew, make little johnnycakes and tend a garden.
Wallaga Lake National Park is a former national park in New South Wales, 296 km (184 mi) south-west of Sydney and north of Bermagui. It now forms part of a greater Gulaga National Park .
Umbarra, aka Merriman Island, in Wallaga Lake is a particularly sacred place for the Yuin people. On 25 November 1977, it was the first place in New South Wales to be declared an Aboriginal Heritage site by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). The island was named after Umbarra, aka King Merriman, leader of the Yuin ...
Umbarra lived on Merriman Island, in the middle of Wallaga Lake, while his people lived on the shores of the lake.Umbarra was believed to have clairvoyant abilities, and communicated with a black duck, his moojingarl or being with which he had a spiritual connection, which warned him of coming danger.
Gulaga was an active volcano more than 60 million years ago. [1]In 2001, as part of the Southern Comprehensive Regional Forest Agreement and at the request of Yuin people, Gulaga National Park was created out of the existing Wallaga Lake National Park, Goura Nature Reserve, and Mt Dromedary Flora Reserve.
The Djiringanj, also spelt Dyirringañ, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the southern coast of New South Wales. They are one of a larger group, known as the Yuin people, who all speak or spoke dialects of the Yuin–Kuric group of languages .
After a period of dispossession from much of their lands and coexistence with the settlers in the Bega Valley, the Aboriginal population was removed to the Wallaga Lake Aboriginal Reserve, under the control of the Aborigines Protection Board of New South Wales. [6] [5] A small jetty was built at Tathra in the early 19th century.