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The south-west corner of Victoria was a prosperous area for the indigenous people before the Europeans arrived in the 1840s. It is bountiful country. To the north the ragged range of the Grampians, or Gariwerd to use their indigenous name, rise out of the basalt plains. The Wannon River snakes south and then west to join the Glenelg River as it travels down to the sea. Long before 'settlement', European ships had passed along the southern coast of Australia and had noted an abundance of campfires that could be seen from sea in the area near what is now Portland.
