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Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project

Collaborative research project led by Professor Grace Karskens as the Coral Thomas Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales 2018-2019. Once every place on Dyarubbin and its tributaries had an Aboriginal name, reflecting ways in which this Country was understood, used and experienced. Now only a handful survive on maps and in common usage. Using a list made by Reverend John McGarvie in 1829 that records the place names used by the Aboriginal people along the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin), a team of Darug people, historians, archaeologists and linguists identified the original locations, allowing for the recovery, recognition and revitalisation of the river's Aboriginal history, culture and Language.

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State Records Authority of New South Wales

State Records is the New South Wales Government's archives and records management authority. On 1 June 1961 The Archives Act, number 46 of 1960, commenced and on that day the first Archives Authority as well as the Principal Archivist were appointed.

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Ioannidou, Anna

Curator.

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Government Record Section, Sheas Creek Stores, May 1957

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[d2_09404 / GPO2 09404]

(Mitchell Library)