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Derrimut is a newly developed suburb in Melbourne. It is named after Derrimut, a nineteenth-century Aboriginal Elder. Derrimut Post Office opened on 1 June 1866 in the rural area, but closed in 1918. [2] The area was home to the "Mount Derrimut" field station of the University of Melbourne from 1964 to 1996 . It focused on agriculture.
The University of Melbourne (colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. [15] Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with ...
Derrimut (Indigenous Australian) Portrait of Derremart by Benjamin Duterau, painted in 1837 during a visit to Hobart with J.P. Fawkner. [citation needed] Derrimut's gravestone in Melbourne General Cemetery. Derrimut (also spelt Derremart or Terrimoot) ( c. 1810 – 20 April 1864), was a headman or arweet of the Boonwurrung (Bunurong) people ...
Melbourne High School is a government-funded single-sex academically selective secondary day school for boys, located in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1905, the school caters for boys from Year 9 to Year 12. [1] The school was founded in 1905 as the first co-educational state secondary school in Victoria.
Mordialloc Aboriginal Reserve in Victoria on the coast of Port Phillip Bay was on traditional land of the Bunurong people to which they gradually retreated from surrounding areas after white settlement from the 1850s. Most had moved, or had been relocated, to Coranderk by the mid-1860s. Benjamin Duterrau (1836) Aboriginal Chief Chief Derah Mat ...
Flemington 3031 (Shared with City of Moonee Valley) Kensington 3031. Melbourne 3000 ( Central business district) Melbourne 3004 ( St Kilda Road area, shared with City of Port Phillip) North Melbourne 3051. Hotham Hill. Macaulay (the name of the railway station) Parkville 3052. Royal Park.
The Boonwurrung, [ 2][ 3] also spelt Bunurong or Bun wurrung, are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in the Australian state of Victoria. Their territory includes part of what is now the city and suburbs of Melbourne.
Aboriginals at Merri Creek by Charles Troedel. The Wurundjeri people are an Aboriginal people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation. They are the traditional owners of the Yarra River Valley, covering much of the present location of Melbourne. They continue to live in this area and throughout Australia.