Maps
A selection of historical and contemporary map resources. Please note these links are from external resources and will take you outside the DPCD website.
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages - Map
The VACL Map provides a spatial overview of Victorian Aboriginal languages as well as references and further information. See the VACL website for further information about language programs in Victoria.
Aboriginal missions and reserves in Victoria
The Koorie Heritage Trust, ABC and the State Library of Victoria collaborated to create the website ‘Mission voices’. Missions and reserves were chosen as the focus for the site as there was very little material on this aspect of Victoria's past, yet they had such a great impact on Koorie people in this state. Visit the website or see a map of Aboriginal missions and reserves in Victoria.
Tindale – Tribal Boundaries Map
Norman Tindale worked on his map of Aboriginal group boundaries at the time of European contact. The map published in 1974 is a product of Tindale’s extensive work. Learn more about Norman Tindale at the Museum of South Australia.
Horton - Aboriginal Australia Map
The Aboriginal Studies Press' interactive Aboriginal Australia map attempts to represent all the language or tribal or nation groups of the Indigenous people of Australia.
Robert Brough Smyth Map – c.1878
View the National Library of Australia's digitised version of Smyth’s 'Map showing approximately some of the areas occupied by the Aboriginal tribes of Victoria'.
National Native Title Tribunal – Maps
Produced by the National Native Title Tribunal. These maps show the status of native title on a regional, state or national basisFind maps of native title applications, indigenous land use agreements and determinations of native title.