Kongwak

Kongwak, a rural village in South Gippsland, is 110 km south-east of Melbourne and 15 km north-east of Wonthaggi. According to Bunce's Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria (1859) Kongwak is an Aboriginal word meaning to catch or stop. Kongwak is on a tributary of the Powlett River in the southern foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges.