25/09/2016
13km south of the Sydney CBD lies Botany Bay, arguably one of the most historically significant locations in Australia. For thousands of years the lands that would become Botany Bay were occupied by the First Australians, the Yuin Nation. The Yuin Nation inhabited a vast section of the east coast from Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to Merimbula, some 355 kilometres to the south, all the way to the Great Dividing Range in the west. The Yuin Nation, being nomadic in nature, traded and intermarried amongst the tribes that incorporated it and followed the migrations of game, fish and whales. In fact, the impact of these migration patterns were so significant, that the area known as La Perouse today was once called Guriwal, or “Whale” in the tongue of the land’s traditional owners.
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