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What Aboriginal nation is Parramatta?
City of Parramatta acknowledges the Traditional Owners of this land, the Darug people. For over 60,000 years, the area comprising present day Parramatta has been occupied by the Burramattagal people, a clan of the Darug, who first settled along the upper reaches of the Parramatta River.
Why is Parramatta important?
Parramatta is a major business and commercial centre, and home to Westfield Parramatta, the tenth largest shopping centre in Australia. Parramatta is also the major transport hub for Western Sydney, servicing trains and buses, as well as having a ferry wharf and future light rail and metro services.
What is the Aboriginal name for Sydney?
Sydney’s Aboriginal name “Djubuguli” refers to what is today named Bennelong Point (where the Opera House stands), whereas “Cadi” denotes the entire Sydney Cove. Check out the guide to Aboriginal Sydney. Population: 4.3 million people, about 50,000 of them Aboriginal.
Who discovered Parramatta?
Governor Arthur Phillip
It lies along the 15-mile- (24-km-) long Parramatta River (which enters Port Jackson harbour). The second European settlement in Australia, it was founded in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip as a western outlying farm colony of Sydney.
What Aboriginal land is northmead on?
Bidjigal
The name of the Bidjigal is today remembered by the name of the 186-hectare (460-acre) Bidjigal Reserve, in Baulkham Hills, Castle Hill, Carlingford, North Rocks and Northmead to the north-west of Sydney.
What is the Aboriginal meaning of Canberra?
meeting place
‘Canberra’, as a new name for the capital, was a sentimental favourite and logical choice. The name probably derived from a local Aboriginal word for ‘meeting place’ and had been in common use in the district for more than three-quarters of a century.
What is Woolloomooloo Aboriginal?
place of plenty
Anthropologist J.D. McCarthy wrote in ‘NSW Aboriginal Places Names’, in 1946, that Woolloomooloo could be derived from either Wallamullah, meaning place of plenty or Wallabahmullah, meaning a young black kangaroo. Mundy wrote that the name came from Wala-mala, meaning an Aboriginal burial ground.
What does Canberra mean in Aboriginal?
Is Parramatta an Aboriginal name?
Parramatta’s name is Aboriginal and commonly translated as ‘the place where the eels lie down’ or ‘head of waters’. It comes from the Aboriginal word Baramada or Burramatta. The Burramatta people belonged to the Darug people of the Sydney area, and in that Aboriginal language ‘burra’ means eel and ‘matta’ means place.
Is Bondi an Aboriginal word?
The name Bondi, also spelt Bundi, Bundye and Boondye, comes from the Aboriginal ‘Boondi’. According to some authorities, this means ‘water tumbling over rocks’, while the Australian Museum records its meaning as ‘a place where a fight with nullas took place’.
What does the word Canberra mean?
What does Bidjigal mean?
The Bidjigal (also spelt Bediagal) people are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are modern-day western, north-western, south-eastern, and southern Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.