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Collins and the Sullivan Bay Settlement – Investigator Vol 1 No 4
ByThe Investigator 25 August 20246 June 2025

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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Murray in the Lady Nelson – Investigator Vol 1 No 1
ByThe Investigator 16 August 202423 November 2024

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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Flinders and Port 16
ByHarry Roberts 24 July 202423 November 2024

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…)

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Geelong’s “Official” Beginning
ByHarry Roberts 27 June 202423 November 2024

The name of Geelong was not the land we live on, but the inner bay. The land from the hills or downs to the water, we call Geelong, was called Iranmoo (also spelled Iramoo). ‘Geelong’ (more…)

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