Coranderrk+Settlement

Coranderrk Settlement


 * Coranderrk** was an Indigenous Australian mission station set up in 1863 to provide land under the policy of concentration, for Aboriginal people who had been dispossessed by the arrival of Europeans to the state of [|Victoria] 30 years prior.[|[][|1][|]][|[][|2][|]] The mission was formally closed in 1924 with most residents removed to Lake Tyers Mission. Five older people refused to move and continued living there until they died. [|James Wandin] was the last person born at Coranderrk Station, in 1933, in the home of his grandmother, Jemima Wandin.[|[][|3][|]]

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loacted near northen melbourne near yarra river

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