Yarra River Print – Melbourne, Victoria

Melbourne's Beautiful Yarra River.

Many of Melbourne’s Parkland's are set on the waters of the Yarra River. This image is of Fairfield Park, a wonderful place to relax on the banks of the Yarra River. The park is one of Melbourne’s best kept secrets, the Fairfield Boathouse and Amphitheatre are located in its grounds.

The Wurundjeri people inhabited the Yarra Valley and a great deal of Victoria before European settlement called the Yarra River ’Birrarung’.  Popular belief is that the word Birrarung is derived from Wurundjeri language meaning "ever flowing".
The river was given the name 'Yarra Yarra' by John Helder Wedge of the Port Phillip Association in 1835. The mistake he made was that he believed that 'Yarra Yarra' meant ‘River’ in Boonwurrung language.

In 1835, John Wedge wrote:

"On arriving in sight of the river, the two natives who were with me, pointing to the river, called out, 'Yarra Yarra', which at the time I imagined to be its name; but I afterwards learnt that the words were what they used to designate a waterfall, as they afterwards gave the same designation to a small fall in the river Werribee, as we crossed it on our way back to Indented Head”.

- John Helder Wedge, published in Bonwick (1868).

Details:

• The "Yarra River" poster is a reproduction of an original photograph.
• This poster is digitally printed on high quality paper with vivid colour and exceptional detail.
• We use Australia Post and your print will be delivered in a postage tube for extra protection.
• Our online images are electronically watermarked, the actual purchased prints are not.

Dimensions:

• Available print sizes: A4 [210 × 297mm], A3 [297 × 420mm], A2 [420 × 594mm], A1 [594 × 841mm] and A0 [841 × 1189mm]
• Click here to for the Print Size Guide for details.