Wyndham Vale (Wyndham Vale)
Wyndham Vale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Wyndham Vale recorded a population of 20,518 at the.
The suburb of Manor Lakes was part of Wyndham Vale until 15 April 2021, when it was officially gazetted as its own suburb.
The area in which Wyndham Vale is located was the home of several Aboriginal clans. It formed the boundary between three main language groups: Wadawurrung, Woiwurrung and Boon wurrung. They all lived in the area now known as Wyndham Vale for thousands of years before European settlement.
Following the establishment of Melbourne and the town of Werribee in the early 1800s, Wyndham Vale became a pastoral area with many hectares of land cleared for cattle and other farming. Several large estates were built, such as the 1000-acre Cobbledink Farm, built in 1868. This remained until the late 1990s and early 2000s when the suburban development of the western suburbs of Melbourne began to rapidly expand. Today, Wyndham Vale is the location of significant population growth as new housing is constructed. This growth increased rapidly after June 2012, when Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy announced an increase in Melbourne's growth boundary by 5858 hectares, including extending the boundary to encompass area of Wyndham Vale.
The suburb of Manor Lakes was part of Wyndham Vale until 15 April 2021, when it was officially gazetted as its own suburb.
The area in which Wyndham Vale is located was the home of several Aboriginal clans. It formed the boundary between three main language groups: Wadawurrung, Woiwurrung and Boon wurrung. They all lived in the area now known as Wyndham Vale for thousands of years before European settlement.
Following the establishment of Melbourne and the town of Werribee in the early 1800s, Wyndham Vale became a pastoral area with many hectares of land cleared for cattle and other farming. Several large estates were built, such as the 1000-acre Cobbledink Farm, built in 1868. This remained until the late 1990s and early 2000s when the suburban development of the western suburbs of Melbourne began to rapidly expand. Today, Wyndham Vale is the location of significant population growth as new housing is constructed. This growth increased rapidly after June 2012, when Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy announced an increase in Melbourne's growth boundary by 5858 hectares, including extending the boundary to encompass area of Wyndham Vale.
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The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately 65,000 years ago, during the last ice age. Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world. Australia's written history commenced with the European maritime exploration of Australia. The Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon was the first known European to reach Australia, in 1606. In 1770, the British explorer James Cook mapped and claimed the east coast of Australia for Great Britain, and the First Fleet of British ships arrived at Sydney in 1788 to establish the penal colony of New South Wales. The European population grew in subsequent decades, and by the end of the 1850s gold rush, most of the continent had been explored by European settlers and an additional five self-governing British colonies established. Democratic parliaments were gradually established through the 19th century, culminating with a vote for the federation of the six colonies and foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. Australia has since maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and wealthy market economy.
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