Point Ritchie or in local Gunditjmara language, Moyjil, is a rocky headland at the mouth of the Hopkins River in Warrnambool, Victoria.
For thousands of years Aboriginal people visited the area to gather food including eels from the Hopkins River and shellfish from the ocean. For decades much of the focus of Australian archaeology has been directed at finding the oldest sites of Aboriginal occupation. The archaeological discovery of Aboriginal remains at Lake Mungo in the 1970s created considerable excitement because it pushed the date at which Australia was colonised by humans to beyond 40,000 years ago.
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