Tarwin Lower

Tarwin Lower is the main settlement on the extensive flats on the lower reaches of the Tarwin River in South Gippsland. Tarwin Lower is about 167 km south-east of Melbourne.

The Tarwin River was a boundary for the original Aboriginal inhabitants, with the Bunurong tribe living to the west of the river and the Brataualong tribe of the Kurnai people to the east. These generally peaceable people camped along the coast in summer, leaving middens and stone implements as evidence. Contact with Europeans led to a dramatic decline in their population.