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Kooyong has its name from Kooyong Koot Creek, which was the name first given to Gardiners Creek by Robert Hoddle in 1837. The name is taken from an Aboriginal word meaning "camp or resting place, or haunt of the wild fowl."

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Reasons for settlement along with examples 

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Reasons for settlement along with examples 

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Because the Wurundjeri people, who inhabited this land, had easy access to important assets such as water and shelter, John Gardiner saw the major potential the land had and decided to settle here

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The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Wurundgjeri language group, in the Kulinalliance, who occupy the Birrarung (Yarra River) Valley, its tributaries and the present location of Melbourne. The Wurundjeri way is a road which runs through Docklands Development west of Melbourne's central business district.

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John Gardiner and his family were the first people   to settle the Boroondara district in 1837. In 1837, Robert Hoddle surveyed the area, and named it "the Parish of Boroondara." .

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Robert Hoddle surveyed the area in 1837 and declared it the "Parish of Boroondara". The area was densely wooded, so he took a word from the Woiwurrung language (spoken by the Wurundjeri), meaning "where the ground is thickly shaded". The City of Boroondara includes the suburbs of Ashburton, Balwyn, Balwyn North, Camberwell, Canterbury, Deepdene, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Kew and Kew East, and parts of the suburbs of Glen Iris and Surrey Hills.

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Sir Richard Bourke, NSW Governor 1831-38. While visiting Port Phillip in 1837, he named Melbourne and its major streets

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Lieutenant-Governor David Collins, commander of the 1803 Sorrento settlement.

David Collins was a British Irish administrator of Britain's first Australian colonies. In the first European settlement of Australia in 1788, Collins was the founding Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of New South Wales.

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Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.

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The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Wurundgjeri language group, in the Kulinalliance, who occupy the Birrarung (Yarra River) Valley, its tributaries and the present location of Melbourne.

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In 1837, John Gardiner and his family were the first Europeans to settle in this area.

Gardiner's creek is named after the first European settlers, the Gardiner family.