One in a series of caches to highlight the many towns, villages, hamlets, localities and crossroads around Victoria. Based on a series of caches in South Australia by local SA cacher adelaideram, with others in the series by Jamms_SA . adelaideram was contacted and is happy with the series spreading its wings into Victoria.
The You Yangs are a series of granite ridges that rise up to 319 m above the flat and low-lying Werribee Plain in southern Victoria, Australia, approximately 5 km due west of the rural town of Little River, 55 km southwest of Melbourne CBD and 22 km north of Geelong. The main ridge runs roughly north-south for about 9 km, with a lower extension running for about 15 km to the west. Much of the southern section of the range is protected in You Yangs Regional Park.
The name "You Yang" comes from the Aboriginal words Wurdi Youang or Ude Youang which could have any number of meanings from "big mountain in the middle of a plain", "big or large hill", or "bald". The Woiwurrung word for granite stone 'yow wong' is also a possibility. The Yawangi people enlarged natural hollows in the rocks to form wells that held water even in dry seasons. The area around the You Yangs was called Morong-morongoo after the murnong, or yam daisy, that was abundant there.
A Jigidi for ... The You Yangs