The first British settlement in Victoria had…

1804 CE

The first British settlement in Victoria had been established by Colonel David Collins in October 1803, at Sullivan Bay, near present-day Sorrento, but this settlement is relocated to what is now Hobart, Tasmania, in February 1804, due to a perceived lack of resources.

It will be thirty years before another settlement is attempted.

Before the arrival of European settlers, humans had occupied the area for an estimated thirty-one thousand to forty thousand years.

At the time of European settlement, it is inhabited by under two thousand hunter-gatherers from three indigenous regional tribes: the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wathaurong.

The area is an important meeting place for the clans of the Kulin nation alliance and a vital source of food and water.

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Exploration of Australia, European View → Colonization of Australasia, European View →

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