The name Bundoora is thought to derive from an Aboriginal word meaning the plain where kangaroos live. A fitting description for this area. The kangaroos come out of the adjacent bush to graze and sunbake in the late afternoon and are often still there in the morning.
The traditional owners of this land were the Aboriginal people of the Wurundjeri Willam clan. By 1839 this general area was starting to be used by white settlers for growing wheat and raising cattle. A paddock in this vicinity became known as Janefield in honour of Jane Brock who was buried here in 1851. On this land, in 1920, the Red Cross established the Janefield Sanatorium, a training farm for tuberculosis sufferers. It closed in 1933. It reopened in 1937 as the Janefield Colony for Mental Defectives (children) and in 1962 was renamed the Janefield Training Centre. It closed in 1996.
Part of the Janefield area, including GZ has now been absorbed into the Plenty Gorge Park. The remainder has become a residential, commercial and business development known as University Hill. Janefield Drive is a major thoroughfare of the area.
The cache is most easily reached by walking about 100 m across grasslands from Fitzjohns Drive, Bundoora.
BYO pen for the log.