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The Boonwurrung people are predominantly saltwater people whose lands, waters, and cosmos encompassed some 3,000 square miles (7,800 km 2) of territory around Western Port Bay and the Mornington Peninsula. Its western boundary was set at Werribee. To the southeast, it extended from Mordialloc through to Anderson Inlet, as far as Wilson's ...
The Bunurong Land Council cultural policy area encapsulates Bunurong traditional lands, waters and cosmos commencing from the Werribee River east around Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Western Port and South Gippsland coastline to Wilson's Promontory. Inland Bunurong boundaries are the watersheds that flow into Port Phillip, Western ...
The Mornington Peninsula has a long history of being a favourite holiday destination for residents of Melbourne with 24,000 holiday homes in the area. [14] Mornington Peninsula tourism generates 10 per cent of local employment opportunities and is an important component of the economy. [14]
Cape Schanck Lighthouse Cape Schanck aerial panorama. April 2024. Pulpit Rock at Cape Schanck. April 2024. Cape Schanck, or Tunnahan (Boonwurrung) is a locality at the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, approximately 72 km (45 mi) south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area.
The Lardil people are the traditional owners of the island, but there are also Kaiadilt people, who were relocated from nearby Bentinck Island, as well as people of other nations on the island. The Mornington Island Mission operated from 1914 until 1978, when it was taken over by the Queensland Government , which had proclaimed the islands an ...
The Mornington Island Mission was substituted by a community administration in 1978. [14] The Shire council in the 1970s introduced a beer canteen, government developmental funds were seen as allowing one to dispense with the necessity to work, and, as alcoholism spread, the Mornington Island peoples began to rank among the communities with the ...
In the 2001 census, the Shire of Mornington had a population of 934 people, of whom 88.2% were Indigenous (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander). [9] In the 2006 census, the Shire of Mornington had a population of 1,032 people. [10] In the 2011 census, the Shire of Mornington had a population of 1,142 people. [11]
The game was a favourite of the Woiwurrung clans and two teams were sometimes based on the traditional totemic moieties of Bunjil (eagle) and Waang (crow) of the Kulin people. Robert Brough-Smyth saw the game played at Coranderrk Mission Station, where ngurungaeta William Barak discouraged the playing of imported games like cricket and ...