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John Batman (21 January 1801 – 6 May 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer, who had a prominent role in the founding of Melbourne.. Born and raised in the then-British colony of New South Wales, Batman settled in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania) in the 1820s, where he rose to prominence for hunting bushrangers and leading massacres of Aboriginal people in the ...
1880s Artist impression of the Treaty being signed. On 6 June Batman recorded in his journal that he had signed a treaty with the local Aboriginal people, the Wurundjeri.In this treaty Batman purported to buy 2,000 km 2 (772 sq mi) of land near the Yarra River and another 400 km 2 (154 sq mi) around Geelong, on Corio Bay to the south-west.
The last sentence later became famous as the "founding charter" of Melbourne, [12] [13] and named the land "Batmania". [ 14 ] [ 15 ] After leaving eight of the men, three of whom were white, at Indented Head with three months supply and told to build a hut and start a garden, Batman and the Rebecca returned to Launceston on 14 June.
National Geographic announces four new Signature Land Expeditions. The trips include expeditions to Australia, Portugal and the Azores, Sri Lanka, and Southern Africa. Furthermore, trips that have ...
The Division of Batman was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.It took its name from John Batman, one of the founders of the city of Melbourne.The division was created in 1906, replacing the Division of Northern Melbourne, and was abolished in 2019 and replaced by the Division of Cooper.
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In April 1835, John Batman, a prominent grazier and a member of the Geelong and Dutigalla Association (later Port Phillip Association), [9] [10] sailed from Launceston on the island of Van Diemen's Land (now the State of Tasmania), aboard the schooner Rebecca, in search of fresh grazing land in the south-east of the Colony of New South Wales (the mainland Australian continent).
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