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Place Names Interactive Website

Fremantle

This innovative and beautiful interactive digital map enables you to explore the 5 Noongar placenames decoded in Place Names Walyalup, with a simple click.

Created by Noongar Elders and community members, led by artists Natalie Scholtz, Elly Jones and Sandy McKendrick, the map of Walyalup (Fremantle) highlights the 5 placenames decoded during this project.

Dwertawirrinup (Cantonment Hill)
Manjaree (The Meeting Place/Bathers Beach)
Beeliar (waterways)
Wattern (the ocean)
Waugul Mia (Rocky Bay)

Each place is identified with an animated icon, created for the Place Names Walyalup project. By clicking on the icon, you can watch a short video in which Noongar Elders and community members talk about the meaning of the placename, the cultural significance of that place for Noongar people, their own connection to the place and the relevance of the placenames project to both First Nations and non-First Nations people in Australia.

Clicking on the title in the top left hand corner of the map activates an introduction to the Place Names Walyalup project by Professor Len Collard of Moodjar and Elder Geri Hayden, both Traditional Owners of Walyalup, who talk about the scope and significance of this project in terms of truth-telling, healing and reconciliation.

Informative and moving, the films were shot by videographer Peter Cheng.

The original map artwork can be viewed at the Walyalup Aboriginal Cultural Centre. The digital map will be displayed at the WA Maritime Museum from 2024.

In 2023, Place Names Walyalup won a History Council of WA Award for “significant contribution to the understanding or impact of, or advocacy for, the Indigenous history of Western Australia”.

Place Names Walyalup is a project produced by CAN in collaboration with Moodjar, the Noongar Community and the City of Fremantle.


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