Tonimbuk

Tonimbuk is in hilly country in Gippsland, adjoining the Bunyip State Park. According to Bunce's Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria (1859) Tonimbuck is an Aboriginal word meaning burn. The locality, 72 km south-east of Melbourne and 10 km north of Bunyip, was developed after the introduction of the Village Settlement Scheme Act in 1892. By October 1894, there were between 300 and 400 people living at Tonimbuk but the scheme was abandoned in December 1894. Some families remained in the area and worked in the sawmilling industry.