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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 161. Chapters: Williamstown, Victoria, St Kilda, Victoria, Docklands, Victoria, Footscray, Victoria, Frankston, Victoria, List of Melbourne suburbs, Frankston North, Victoria, Templestowe, Victoria, Brunswick, Victoria, Fitzroy, Victoria, Patterson Lakes, Victoria, Lalor, Victoria, Northcote, Victoria, Toorak, Victoria, Dandenong, Victoria, Cheltenham, Victoria, Coburg, Victoria, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Craigieburn, Victoria, Cranbourne, Victoria, Carrum Downs, Victoria, Werribee, Victoria, South Yarra, Victoria, Sunbury, Victoria, Point Cook, Victoria, Tullamarine, Victoria, Sunshine, Victoria, Rosebud, Victoria, Croydon, Victoria, Vermont South, Victoria, Preston, Victoria, Kew, Victoria, Newport, Victoria, Box Hill, Victoria, Eltham, Victoria, St Kilda East, Victoria, Abbotsford, Victoria, Brighton, Victoria, East Melbourne, Victoria, Prahran, Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Doncaster East, Victoria, Clifton Hill, Victoria, Brunswick East, Victoria, Collingwood, Victoria, Richmond, Victoria. Excerpt: Williamstown is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hobsons Bay. At the 2011 Census, Williamstown had a population of 13,203. Williamstown is approximately 15 minutes by car from Melbourne via the West Gate Freeway or a 30-minute train journey from Flinders Street Station. Ferries from Melbourne's Southgate Arts & Leisure Precinct take approximately 1 hour. Williamstown is also the main town where the Australian Television Program Blue Heelers was filmed. Aboriginal people occupied the area long before maritime activities shaped the modern historical development of Williamstown. The Yalukit-willam clan of the Kulin nation were the first people to call Hobsons Bay home. They roamed the thin coastal strip from Werribee to Williamstown/Hobsons Bay. The Yalukit-willam were one clan in a language group known as the Bunurong, which included six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory. The region offered a varied diet to its inhabitants. Not only were shell fish available from the sea, but the many swamps and creeks in the district would have yielded birds, fish, eels, eggs and snakes. Early white settlers in the region noted plenty of kangaroos and possums, which would also have been a source of food. The Yalukit-willam referred to the Williamstown area as "koort-boork-boork," a term meaning "clump of she-oaks," literally "She-oak, She-oak, many." Around Point Gellibrand people used to be invited to join in ceremony, an indigenous peace festival and food festival where there would be an exchange of water and the leaves of a gum tree as well as feasts of bird meat and fish and shellfish. The head of the Yalikut-willam tribe at the time of the arrival of the first white settlers was Benbow, who became one of John Batman's guides. Industrial development, land segregation, racism and a typho
