Sites of significance around regional Victoria

Mornington Peninsula
There are around 50 sites of significance located along the Mornington Peninsula that show of the life of the Bunurong people. This tribe bore the brunt of European colonisation in Victoria.

Lake Condah
There are sites around Lake Condah, near Portland, south-west of Melbourne, that show evidence of continued occupation since Mt Eccles was an active volcano, many thousands of years ago. These sites can be seen today.

Mt William
Mt William is an Aboriginal site of significance. It was a place where Aboriginal people quarried for greenstone, the hardy stone being ideal for making axes. Mt William greenstone was traded all over Victoria and into other states.

Mt William is also a place of cultural significance to the Wurundjeri people. They are descendants of the people who quarried, traded and made axes from the greenstone.

Whroo
The Whroo area, south of the Goulburn River, was home to the Ngurai-illum-wurrung and Taungurong clans. Following several years of resistance wars by the Aboriginal clans against the European settlers, the Aboriginal people's traditional life, food resources and resistance were destroyed.

With the discovery of gold, the township of Whroo was established in 1850, but was deserted by 1960. All that remains now is a rock well, which local Aboriginal people continue to have an association with. The rock well was used to store water so that clan groups would have a constant source of water as they travelled through the area. The rock well is:

• 90cm deep
• 50x35cm diameter
• 110 litres capacity

When full, the water flows over a lip in the front wall.

Most rock wells are closely associated with Rainbow (snake) Dreamings and rain making ceremonies. Whroo, Wahroo or Wooro is an Aboriginal word for lips.