Kooyong

Kooyong is a residential suburb 7 km south-east of Melbourne on the south side of the Gardiners Creek valley. Its neighbours are Toorak and Malvern.

Gardiners Creek was originally named Kooyong Koot Creek by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, in 1837. It is thought that the name derives from an Aboriginal word meaning camp or resting place, or haunt of the wild fowl. Kooyong is near where John Gardiner, a pastoralist who overlanded stock from Yass, New South Wales, built his house in the mid-1830s.