Yarra Park State School
Yarra may refer to: * Yarra River, a river in southern Victoria, Australia on which the city of Melbourne was founded * Yarra Trams, a public transport company specialising in trams in Melbourne, Australia * City of Yarra, a local government area in Victoria, Australia * South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria * Yarra, New South Wales, a locality near Goulburn, New South Wales * Yarra Creek, Tasmania, a locality * Division of Yarra, an abolished Australian federal electoral division *HMAS Yarra, name of Australian naval ships *Yarra Park, a park that surrounds the MCG and other ovals in Victoria (Australia). ;See also *Jarrah (other) {{disambig ...
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Yarra River
The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Kulin languages: ''Berrern'', ''Birr-arrung'', ''Bay-ray-rung'', ''Birarang'', ''Birrarung'', and ''Wongete'') is a perennial river in south-central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the Yarra are where Victoria's state capital Melbourne was established in 1835, and today metropolitan Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower reaches. From its source in the Yarra Ranges, it flows west through the Yarra Valley which opens out into plains as it winds its way through Greater Melbourne before emptying into Hobsons Bay in northernmost Port Phillip Bay. The river has been a major food source and meeting place for Indigenous Australians for thousands of years. Shortly after the arrival of European settlers, land clearing forced the remaining Wurundjeri people into neighbouring territories and away from the river. Originally called ''Birrarung'' by the Wurundjeri, the current name was mis ...
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