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For thousands of years before European settlement, Victoria Park-Barrambin was home to one of the largest First Nations camps in Brisbane, with up to 1,000 people living here at different times of the year, their camps positioned along ridges above waterholes where the breezes carried stories and songs.

The land was an open woodland of towering blue gums, ironbarks, spotted gum and forest oaks, with fresh waterholes and lagoons that teemed with life - bream, eels, waterfowl and reeds. Koalas, kangaroos, gliders, possums and emus were all plentiful. Some of the trees on this site pre-date European settlement. These are not just trees, but living links to ancient history, culture and Country.