The Battle of Yering Memorial and Walk
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The Battle of Yering took place on 13 January 1840 between some 50 Wurundjeri indigenous tribe members and troopers of the Border Police. The armed conflict was over the capture of the Wurundjeri leader Jaga Jaga. During the conflict shots were exchanged and the Wurundjeri retreated into a nearby billabong.
That area is now known as the Murrup Brarn Yarra Flats Billabongs, only a few hundred metres from the Yarra Glen Township.
A bronze plaque mounted upon a large boulder on the perimeter road tells the story of the conflict.
The area was subjected to flooding from the adjacent Yarra River after prolonged rainfall, with the Melba Highway often under water cutting off access to Yarra Glen from the Lilydale direction.
In 1999 a new bridge, crossing the Yarra River was opened and the approach to it straightened.
The old Melba Highway now forms a "U" shaped walking path surrounding the Yarra Flats Billabongs. Being the old highway it is wide and smooth and very wheelchair navigable.
A gravel path cuts across the middle of the area allowing a closer look at some of the billabongs.
Like most billabongs they are only filled when the rivers they were once part of floods.
Information boards are placed along the walks indicating that five species of frogs can be found, or at least heard, in the billabongs and 70 species of plants have been identified in the reserve. With active regeneration of the area it is hoped that wildlife will return.
It is a very easy walk and provides moderate exercise, education and a local history lesson.
The Battle of Yering
Melba Highway, Yarra Glen.
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125869 - 2023-06-13 02:48:49