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The Taungurung people used the King and Howqua River valleys as a major route for trade or war between tribes. [4] The Howqua River valley contains a number of archaeological sites of significance including at least two quarry sites for greenstone, an exceptionally hard rock used for stone axes, spears and other cutting tools which the Taungurung traded with other tribes.
The Campaspe Plains massacre in 1839 in Central Victoria, Australia was as a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung lands. [1] Charles Hutton took over the Campaspe run, located near the border of Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung, in 1838 following sporadic confrontations.
Woiwurrung, Taungurung and Boonwurrung [3] are Aboriginal languages of the Kulin nation of Central Victoria. ... The location of meeting was spoken, but neighbouring ...
The Nagambie Region is within the traditional lands of the Taungurung people, who are the first people of the rivers, valleys and mountains in this region. The Taungurung people lived according to the natural cycles and rhythms of the land moving through their country seasonally, occupying the more cooler mountain areas in summer and autumn and ...
Taungurung (Tung-ger-rung) – the Taungurung people Dja Dja Wurrung (Jar-Jar-Wur-rung) – the Djadjawurrung or Djaara people At certain times of the year, these nations would meet at Yarra Falls to settle disputes, to trade, and to hold corroborees .
The Cathedral Range (Taungurung: Nanadhong) [3] is a mountain range that is part of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, Australia, located in Cathedral Range State Park.The range is formed from a 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) ridge of upturned sedimentary rock, consisting mainly of sandstone, mudstone and conglomerates of the Devonian Period.
The traditional owners of Sugarloaf Creek are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. [ 3 ] Charles Hotson Ebden and Charles Bonney drove 10,000 sheep from Mungabareena station on the Murray on 1 March 1837 and reached Sugarloaf Creek ...
The Cathedral Range State Park (Taungurung: Nanadhong) [1] located in Victoria, Australia, approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-east of Melbourne. [2] It is situated between the towns of Buxton and Taggerty and runs parallel to the Maroondah Highway. [2] The Cathedral Range was declared a State Park on 26 April 1979. [3]