Murrindindi

Murrindindi is a locality 15 km south of Yea. The name comes from that of a pastoral run taken up by a stock overlander from New South Wales, Peter Snodgrass, who came to Port Phillip in 1838 and chose the Murrindindi site later that year. It was about 15 km south of the future site of Yea. The name is thought to derive from an Aboriginal word for mists or mountain.

In 1865 Bailliere's Victorian gazetteer recorded the existence of Murrindindi Creek: