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…)
The author of Memoranda of a trip to Port Phillip in 1836 was Joseph Tice Gellibrand, a former Attorney General in Van Diemen’s Land (VDL) and one of the 15 members of the Port Phillip (more…)
This is the seventh instalment of the Investigator’s series ‘The Story of Geelong’, published in May 1967. Using John Wedge’s journals and a subsequent map of his explorations the writer takes the reader along on (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)