In 1889 the lake itself was formed when Gardiners Creek
was dammed to provide water for local fruit growers.
Gardiners Creek is a waterway in the eastern suburbs of
Melbourne part of the Yarra River catchment. The river
was called Birrarung by the Wurundjeri people who occupied
the Yarra valley prior to British settlement. The Wurundjeri
are Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who occupied
the Yarra River Valley and its tributaries in what is now
Melbourne, Australia. Wurundjeri people take their name
from ‘wurun’ or ‘Manna Gum’ (Eucalyptus viminalis) which
is common along the Yarra River.
It was given the name Yarra Yarra in 1835 by John Helder
Wedge of the Port Phillip Association, in the mistaken
belief that this was the Aboriginal name for the river.
Over 30km in length, the creek flows from Blackburn in
the east to the Yarra River opposite Richmond. It is named
after John Gardiner, an early Melbourne land speculator and
banker who settled on its banks in 1838…
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