AusStage

Venue	Aboriginal Campsite & Corroboree Ground
Address	Royal Park Parkville VIC 3052 Australia
Notes	The land now occupied by Royal Park had long been used as a camping ground by the Wurundjeri and by other tribal groups visiting the area. The early colonist William Westgarth encountered an Aboriginal camp here in the early 1840s and corroborees were observed to have taken place here.
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Latitude \| Longitude	-37.791055 \| 144.951468
Radius	100 metres
Resources	Artwork: David Drape, Royal Park "North Paddock", State Library of Victoria, 1871 Artwork: Victor Cobb, In Royal Park, State Library of Victoria, 1936 Document: City of Melbourne, The City of Melbourne Background History, December 2004, 11 Negative: Jim Payens, Aerial View of Parkville & Carlton, Victoria, circa 1973, Museum Victoria, 1973 Photograph: Parkville, 1927 Photograph: Royal Park, Heritage Council Victoria, 2016
Data Set	AusStage
Venue Identifier	18913

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