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During Portland's 150th anniversary celebrations in 1984, a plaque was installed on the reverse side of this monument commemorating Edward Henty's first land in 1834. The plaque above reads: This Tablet commemorates the GUNDITJMARA landholders of south-western Victoria from time immemorial, who were among the first Aborigines in Victoria to experience contact with Europeans. By the 1820's, sealing and whaling crews frequented the coast, disturbing Aborigines, introducing diseases fatal to them and causing the beginning of changes to traditional tribal life.

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