GLASS – THE NOVEL MEDIUM
Lou Lane’s article “Glass – the Novel Medium” from Investigator, Volume 22, No. 4, December 1987, pp. 139–142. Members can also read that month’s issue online. You can also listen to a reading of the (more…)
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1800s | Latest News | Lou Lane | Queens Park | Wadawurrung
Geelong’s Canoe Tree
Louis N. Lane’s article “The Geelong Canoe Tree” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 4 (December 1988). Members can read that month’s issue online. You can also listen to a reading of the article by clicking (more…)
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1800s | Indented Head | Latest News | Lou Lane | Wadawurrung
Understanding Wadawurrung Family Names
The following article revisits Lou Lane’s 1990 contribution to Investigator, in which she examines the naming customs of the Wathaurung (now Wadawurrung) people as recorded in early colonial journals. Drawing on Andrew Todd’s 1835 census (more…)
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THE WATHAURUNGS
Louis N. Lane’s article “The Wathaurungs” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 3 (September 1988) Pages 96 -109. Members can read the original from that month’s issue online. You can now also listen to a reading (more…)
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Little Scotland – Investigator – Vol 3 No 1
Little Scotland: its borders, people and stories. On April 5 1967 LJ Keavy was the speaker at the Geelong Historical Society’s monthly meeting. He had been a resident of Little Scotland, a small pocket of (more…)
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1800s | David Collins | Indented Head | Lieutenant Tuckey | Port Phillip | Sullivan Bay | Swan Bay | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung | William Buckley
Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement – Investigator Vol 1 No 4
Listen to the article (10 minutes) David Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement In the fourth issue of Investigator magazine in 1966, the Story of Geelong featured an account of the ill-fated settlement at Sullivan (more…)
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Grimes and Flemming – Investigator Vol 1 No 3
Grimes and Flemming – the Story of Geelong. In the May edition of 1966 the Investigator magazine continued its ‘Story of Geelong’ with the following account of the five week expedition to Port Phillip mounted (more…)
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1800s | George Bass | Indented Head | Matthew Flinders | Port Phillip | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong
Flinders in the Investigator – Investigator Vol 1 No 2
Flinders in the Investigator. This article on Matthew Flinders was the second in a series called ‘The Story of Geelong’ and originally published in the first volume of the Geelong Historical Society’s magazine ‘Investigator’. It (more…)
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1800s | Lt. John Murray | Port Phillip | Swan Bay | The Investigator | The Story of Geelong | Wadawurrung
Murray in the Lady Nelson – Investigator Vol 1 No 1
The Story of Geelong. The first edition of Investigator, the Geelong Historical Society magazine, was published in September of 1965 and it included a series of articles it described as ‘the story of Geelong’. The (more…)
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1800s | Indented Head | Latest News | Notable People | Port Phillip | Video | Wadawurrung | You Yangs
Flinders and Port 16
Port 16 … is this Matthew Flinder’s most important discovery? In 1802 when Matthew Flinders began his journey that resulted in the first circumnavigation of our continent he made one discovery that he prosaically labelled (more…)
