#westerndistrict — Public Fediverse posts
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Musk In The Sky – mixx889.com.au
Musk In The Sky mixx889.com.au‘Massive, bright’ light seen in Victorian sk…
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When meeting up with an elderly relation last week he told us that his father had 45 head of dairy cows. This was enough to look after a family with 5 children in the 1930s and 1940s in the Western District of Victoria.
Makes you think. I guess the family would not have had many things, but they had enough.
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Over the last few days I have been sharing about the landscape of western Victoria which is covered with volcanos, some of which erupted comparatively recently, as little as 10,000 years ago. The Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland also has quite a few volcanos of a similar age.
The eruptions of both the western Victorian and Far North Queensland volcanos have been remembered by the Aboriginal peoples of the respective regions. They have carefully passed on this history in their oral storytelling traditions for thousands of years.
Today the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) has published some of these indigenous histories. Read these stories about the creation of landscape that includes the stories about the volcanos: https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic/landscape-change/
#volcanos #WesternDistrict #AthertonTablelands #TowerHill #Warrnambool #OzHist
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There is a small wildflower garden at the base of Mount Leura. In it is a knitted art installation by Nicky Schonkler. It recognises the current season called Petyan by the First Nations people in this area. Petyan stretches from late August to mid November and is a period when a lot of wildflowers are blooming. The textiles represent the colours of the flowers.
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There were a lot of indigenous peoples living in this area when the European settlers arrived. Sadly, many were driven out by the invaders very early on. This map shows some of the language groups in the state of Victoria.
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@KingSara Funfact, I'm currently #digitising the #history of the #Murihiku #Southland #WesternDistrict #HumpridgeTrack as it becomes a #GreatWalk #Aotearoa #NZ in a year's time... I think a few people will come & do multiple walks.