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Their hunting grounds extended up to the Yarra River to the north-west, the Dandenong Ranges to the east and the hills down to Western Port and Port Phillip to the south and south-west. The most famous Bunurong was the elder Derrimut, to whom the first colonists constructed a monument in the Melbourne Cemetery.
Nancy and Jimmy Dunbar died in 1877, the last Bunurong people from the Mordialloc camp. [ 26 ] In 1878 the Minister of Lands, in deciding on the application by George Langridge for 4.0 hectares (10 acres) at Mordialloc "believed to have been reserved for an aboriginal reserve", denied that the Lands department had ever allocated it to such purpose.
The traditional custodians of the land surrounding what is now known as the Dandenong Creek were the indigenous Bunurong people of the Kulin nation who referred to the creek as Narra Narrawong; while others gave the creek the name Dandenong, sometimes spelled as Dand-y-non or Tanjenong by early settlers, believed to mean "high" or "lofty".
Bunurong, Bunwurrung, Boonwerung, Boonoorong and Bururong [37] Bunwurru; Putnaroo, Putmaroo; Thurung (an eastern tribal exonym for the Bunjurong, meaning tiger snakes, a metaphor indicating the sneaky way they set up ambushes against the eastern tribes.) Toturin (a Gunai term for 'black snake, used for several western Boonwurrung tribes. [5]
The Bunurong (or Boon Wurrung ... Stephen and Mary Ann Charman, donated land in 1854 that was the first cemetery of the area, ... Dandenong, Moorabbin and ...
South Brisbane Cemetery – also known as Dutton Park Cemetery; St Matthews Anglican Church, Grovely; The Gap Uniting (formerly Methodist) Church Cemetery & Columbarium Wall, The Gap; Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane – Proper name "The Brisbane General Cemetery" the oldest existing and largest Brisbane cemetery. Opened in 1875.
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The Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller named the area The Basin about 1860 during a visit to the Dandenong Ranges because it is located in a "basin" surrounded by hills. (source: Knox Historical Society) "The Basin" is shown on an 1868 survey plan, when settlers had taken licences or made freehold purchases of the land.