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Dights Falls on the Yarra River, Abbotsford.

Dights Falls on the Yarra River showing the silurian sandstone hillside

Dights Falls (pronounced 'dytes falls')is located in Melbourne, Victoria just downstream of the junction of the Yarra River with Merri Creek. At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000 year old volcanic, basalt boulders and a steep, silurian, sedimentary spur. The north side also contains abundant graptolite fossils in sedimentary sandstone. Image File history File links Dights_falls. ... Image File history File links Dights_falls. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3456x2304, 4266 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Dights Falls User:Matnkat Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3456x2304, 4266 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Dights Falls User:Matnkat Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ... Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 37  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $222,022 (2nd)  - Product per capita  $44,443/person (5th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  5,110,500 (2nd)  - Density  22. ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ... The Merri Creek The Merri Creek is a waterway in Melbourne, Victoria. ... Basalt Basalt (IPA: ) is a common gray to black volcanic rock. ... The Silurian is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Ordovician period, about 443. ... Two types of sedimentary rock: limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... Graptolites (Graptolithina) are fossil colonial animals known chiefly from the Upper Cambrian through the Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous). ... Red sandstone interior of Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, worn smooth due to erosion by flash flooding over millions of years Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. ...

Prior to European settlement, the area was occupied by the indigenous Wurundjeri tribe of the Kulin nation. The rock falls would have provided the Aboriginal people with a natural river crossing and place to trap migrating fish. It was also a meeting place for many clans where they would trade together, settle disputes and exchange brides. Indigenous Australians or Aborigines[1][2] are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... The Wurundjeri are Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who occupied what is now Melbourne, Australia prior to European settlement of the area. ... The Kulin alliance is one of the Indigenous Australian nations of Australia who lived in central Victoria, Australia, around Port Phillip and Western Port, up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys. ...

In the 1840s, an artificial weir was built on the natural bar of basalt boulders to provide water to the "Ceres" flour mill, one of the first in Victoria. Situated by the Yarra River in Collingwood is the industrial relic known locally as "Dight's Mill", one of Melbourne's oldest and most significant industrial sites. In the early 1840's John Dight established Melbourne's first water-powered flour mill on the site. In 1888 'Yarra Falls Roller Mills' built a water-turbine powered mill, which was the largest and most sophisticated of the thirty two water powered mills built in Victoria before 1900. In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. ... The flour mill or grist mill is a kind of mill which is fed grain and makes flour. ...

On a hill above the falls to the south, is an historic marker commemorating the "first white men to discover the river Yarra reaching Yarra Falls on 8th February, 1803. Also to make the first crossing near here with the cattle by the first overlanders John Gardiner, Joseph Hawdon and Captain John Hepburn in December 1836". John Gardiner (5 July 1798 - 16 November 1878) was a nineteenth century Australian banker and pastoralist. ... Joseph Hawdon (14 November 1813 – 12 April 1871) was a pioneer settler and overlander of Australia and New Zealand. ...

External links

• Good photo.
• About the falls.
• Information from Parks Victoria.