Boorong (c.1777 – c.1813), also known as Booron or Abaroo, was a Burramattagal woman who was the first female Indigenous Australian to establish significant...

Wergaia word for 'sky', the Boorong Aboriginal people of the area being distinguished for their interest in star-lore. The Boorong, with their astronomical...

Englishman who emigrated to Australia in 1841 and befriended the local Boorong people. A constellation used almost everywhere in Australian Aboriginal...

settlement, another young smallpox survivor, a twelve-year-old girl named Boorong, was brought in. She was taken into the household of the colony's chaplain...

with his final wife, Boorong. Dickey was adopted by Anglican priest William Walker and christened as Thomas Walter Coke. Boorong was later buried with...

马腹一 (Mandarin: mǎ fù yī, "the First Star of the Horse's Abdomen"). The Boorong people indigenous to what is now northwestern Victoria, Australia named...

Naracoorte caves, who moulded men from a tree. One clan of the Wergaia, the Boorong near Lake Tyrrell, had accomplished star-gazers with a sophisticated knowledge...

yī, English: the First Star of Crooked Running Water). The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria, Australia, named it Yerrerdetkurrk. USS...

"Sharur and Shargaz". In Coptic, they were called Minamref. The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria (Australia) named it (together with Upsilon...

南門二 Nán Mén Èr, the Second Star of the Southern Gate. To the Indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria in Australia, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri...

018 metres (3,340 ft) Patawarta Hill, at 1,015 metres (3,330 ft) Mount Boorong Mount Karawarra Harold Hill Beacon Hill, at 1,003 metres (3,291 ft) Rawnsley...

navigation and timekeeping. In Australian Aboriginal mythology for the Boorong people of Victoria, Capella was Purra, the kangaroo, pursued and killed...

Praesepe Salvatoris. In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Lyra is known by the Boorong people in Victoria as the Malleefowl constellation. Lyra was known as Urcuchillay...

violence towards women was well-known. In October 1790 he severely battered Boorong, Bennelong's third wife, and in May 1791 he attempted to abduct a girl...

and all three are placed in the sky as the constellation Munowra. To the Boorong people of Victoria, Sigma Canis Majoris was Unurgunite (which has become...

strong" -mokiny semblative dwert-mokiny, "like a dog" -boorong having or existing moorn-boorong, "getting dark" -broo abessive bwoka-broo, "without a coat"...

cultures, while Crux itself is said to be a possum sitting in a tree (Boorong people of the Wimmera region of northwestern Victoria), a representation...

stars fell like rain." In the Australian Aboriginal astronomy of the Boorong tribe, the Lyrids represent the scratchings of the Mallee fowl (represented...

Vanant, a minor divinity whose name means "conqueror". The indigenous Boorong people of north-western Victoria, Australia, named it Neilloan, "the flying...

taboo preventing a man from approaching his mother-in-law. The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria named Rigel as Collowgullouric Warepil...

ancestor Waa "Crow" to some Koori people in southeastern Australia. The Boorong people of northwestern Victoria recalled that War (Canopus) was the brother...

itself is 心宿一 (Xīn Xiù yī), "the First Star of Heart". The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria in Australia saw this star and Tau Scorpii...

with possible rapid and large fluctuations. In their oral traditions, the Boorong clan of the Wergaia people of Lake Tyrrell, north-western Victoria, Australia...

activities such as creating a planisphere with both Western scientific and Boorong names for celestial objects. There is a perception that public education...

1795–1833) – convict hunter Botany Bay Colebee (c. 1763 - after 1790) Boorong (c.1777–c.1813) – Burramattagal woman who was the first Indigenous female...

Austral Heritage Consultants. Morieson, J. (2008). "The case study of the Boorong", in Jonas Vaiškūnas (ed.), Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions...

depicting people sitting in a semicircle around a fire. The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria saw it as Won, a boomerang thrown by Totyarguil...

resemblance to the Chinese ink tradition. Garcinia Mangostana; Booah Mangies; Boorong Merbo (William Farquhar Collection, 1819–1823) Jasminum; Akar Benang; Pokok...

Berenices: Fatana-lua, Fata-olunga, Fata-lalo and Kapakau-o-Tafahi. The Boorong people called the constellation Tourt-chinboiong-gherra, and saw it as...

took into their home an indigenous girl aged about 15, called Araboo or Boorong, who had survived the 1789 Sydney smallpox outbreak. She learned some English...