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The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River

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Rivers and Catchments

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Dorumbolooa Hawkesbury district Sackville (Dorumbolooa)

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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Karskens, Grace

Professor Grace Karskens teaches Australian history at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests include colonial, urban and environmental history. Grace's books include the award winning 'The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney' and 'The Colony: A History of Early Sydney' which won the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction

The Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River

The winner of the State Library of NSW Coral Thomas Fellowship in 2018-19 was a collaborative project, The Real Secret River: Dyarubbin. Based on a list of Aboriginal words recorded along Dyarubbin (the Hawkesbury River) in the 1820s by Reverend John McGarvie that is held in the Mitchell LIbrary, winning the Fellowship allowed the team behind the project to work on the recovery, recognition and revitalisation of the river's Darug and Darkinjung history, culture and Language.

Rivers and Catchments

Sackville (Dorumbolooa)

North-western rural suburb, named after Viscount Sackville, British Secretary of State for the Colonies. It is the site of the Sackville Ferry, a cable car ferry crossing Hawkesbury River. The Aboriginal name for the area shared by local people with the Rev John McGarvie in 1826 is Dorumbolooa.

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.

Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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Dorumbolooa

Historically significant area on the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) around Sackville Reach and Portland Head that was identified by the Aboriginal people who were sharing knowledge with the Rev John McGarvie in 1829 as he wrote a list of place names used by the Darug and Darkinyung people along the river. The name means 'the zone where the rainbow passes through'.

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