Modern Australian

the Aboriginal names for ten Melbourne suburbs

  • Written by Jason Gibson, Research Fellow, Deakin University
the Aboriginal names for ten Melbourne suburbsMelbourne in 1846: a view from Collingwood. T. E. Prout. State Library of Victoria

Ten previously forgotten Aboriginal names for 19th century sites and suburbs of Melbourne have been recently unearthed at the Melbourne Museum. These include the names for Fitzroy (Ngár-go), Richmond (Quo-yung), Collingwood (Yálla-birr-ang) and...