The Country of the First XI
A team drawn from across Western Victoria
Most of the 1868 First XI came from the nations of Western Victoria, with a couple more who joined the team in Sydney. Explore the Aboriginal nations of the whole state below, and the Country the team called home, around Harrow and the shores of Lake Wallace.
Country of the First XI
Other nations of Victoria
Harrow
Harrow sits on Wotjobaluk Country, within the wider Wergaia language area. Across the Glenelg River lies Gunditjmara Country (shown here as Dhauwurd wurrung), the traditional land of most of the First XI, who trained near Edenhope on the shores of Lake Wallace. Neighbouring Jardwadjali Country completes the district the team came from. We honour those places and their people, and the descendants who remain proud custodians today.
A note on this map. The boundaries shown are drawn from a published research map (credited below) and are a guide, not a precise survey. Aboriginal nations, languages and Country are living and sometimes overlap. This page is shared for learning, with respect, and is being reviewed with community.
Base map:
Aboriginal tribal territories and languages in Victoria, by Tirin (Takver), 2008, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed
CC BY-SA 3.0. Based on research from Ian D. Clark,
Scars on the Landscape (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995) and the AIATSIS Aboriginal Australia map. This interactive adaptation by the Harrow Discovery Centre is likewise shared under CC BY-SA 3.0.