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Dalgety_20120720_021 Terra nullius road-2.jpg - Terra Nullius. Photograph along the road between Dalgety and Jindabyne. Prior to the arrival of the first European colonists in the 1820s this region was Ngarigo Country. They ranged widely over the region, and (along with members of other language groups who lived around the Snowy Mountains) travelled in summer to feast on Bogong moths amongst the granite boulders of the high country.As with squatters and settlers in other parts of the colony, the Europeans appropriated the land for their use and instituted a system of land title that ignored the property rights of the Indigenous people who had already lived here for many thousands of years. Their right to take ownership in this way was later formalised into the legal doctrine of Terra Nullius i.e. the principle that the land was vacant prior to their arrival.

Terra Nullius. Photograph along the road between Dalgety and Jindabyne. Prior to the arrival of the first European colonists in the 1820s this region was Ngarigo Country. They ranged widely over the region, and (along with members of other language groups who lived around the Snowy Mountains) travelled in summer to feast on Bogong moths amongst the granite boulders of the high country. As with squatters and settlers in other parts of the colony, the Europeans appropriated the land for their use and instituted a system of land title that ignored the property rights of the Indigenous people who had already lived here for many thousands of years. Their right to take ownership in this way was later formalised into the legal doctrine of Terra Nullius i.e. the principle that the land was vacant prior to their arrival. | Dalgety_20120720_021 Terra nullius road-2.jpg

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