Simon Wonga,b?-d.1875, was an elder of the Wurundjeri indigenous people who lived in the Melbourne area of Australia. The Wurundjeri are Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who occupied what is now Melbourne, Australia prior to European settlement of the area. ... Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ...

In 1859 some Wurundjeri elders, led by Simon Wonga petitioned Protector Thomas to secure land for them at the junction of the Acheron and Goulbourn rivers. This was refused and instead land was provided, though importantly not granted as freehold, at Coranderrk, near Healesville. The Wurundjeri are Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who occupied what is now Melbourne, Australia prior to European settlement of the area. ... Coranderrk was an Indigenous Australian mission station set up in 1863 to provide land under the policy of concentration, for such people who had been dispossessed by the arrival of Europeans to Victoria 30 years prior. ... Healesville is an outer-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 52km from the Melbourne centre and situated on the Watts river, a tributary of the Yarra River. ...

The Melbourne suburb of Wonga Park and Wonga Road are named after him. Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Wonga Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...