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Layer Id 521 Name Monang guides H.W. Bunbury from Pinjarra to Vasse in Noongar country
Description

These are only a few quick notes from the diary of HW Bunburry on his 4 day journey during the early days of the colony guided by Monan through the south west of Noongar country from Pinjarra to Vasse. Ideally this whole diary would be transcribed, and mapped. It provides a very interesting perspective as, although it is a colonis'ts perspective with an eye to resource exploitation, the commentary on Noongar people and places seems to be from before colonists learned what misrepresentations it was in their best interests to make, and before Indigenous people in this area learned the new comers were adversaries. It describes seasonal eating, protocols for travelling through other peoples territory, smoke signalling, permanent paths and well made and maintained paperbark huts, etc. Bunburry also waxes lyrical about beauty of the landscape and the 'bush life', the ease of staying warm, how effective an easily made humpy is as a shelter, and the pleasure of throwing off cumbersome possessions, and how little else is needed to live contentedly in Australia. Despite the hospitality he recieved Bunbury later shot Noongar people.

Subject Keywords aboriginal, colonial, journey, noongar
Type Journey Temporal From 1837
Temporal To 1837 Created At 2023-06-21 16:38:03
Updated At 2023-06-21 18:00:57 Ghap Url https://tlcmap.org/layers/521
Statistic Value Unit
Total Places
3 -
Area
136.91355023622 km2
Convex Hull
POLYGON((115.6587409660696 -33.318766127134936,115.69880635233478 -33.06468477270095,115.87503430103044 -32.63055627756186,115.6587409660696 -33.318766127134936)) -
Density
0.0219116369039 places/km2
Centroid
POINT(115.74419387314494 -33.00466905913258) -
Bounding Box
POLYGON((115.6587409660696 -33.318766127134936,115.6587409660696 -32.63055627756186,115.87503430103044 -32.63055627756186,115.87503430103044 -33.318766127134936,115.6587409660696 -33.318766127134936)) -
Most Central Place
Miellup Lagoon -
Most Distant Place from center
Monang and HW Bunbury depart Pinjarra -
Distribution
  • Average Distance from Centroid: 28.96291316115
  • Average Distance from Centroid / Area of Convex Hull: 0.21154161228877
kilometers
Start Date
1837 -
End Date
2023-06-21 -
Duration
186.47 years
Median Date
2023-06-21 -
Average Date
1961-04-24 -