Everywhere St Kilda Football Club has based itself is Boonwurrung Country.

From Junction Oval, down to Seaford and back to Moorabbin, they all reside on traditional lands where incidentally, the game of Marngrook – acknowledged by the AFL as the antecedent to our great game – was played.

Boonwurrung is the name given to the language and traditional people who were the custodians of the land; a clan of the five Eastern Kulin Nations alongside the Woiwurrung, Taungwurrung, Djadjawurrung and Wadawurrung.

Boonwurrung Country stretches around what is now known as Western Port Bay (Warrnmarin), the Mornington Peninsula and Point Nepean (Monmar), around Port Phillip Bay (Naarm) as far west as Werribee, as far east as Warragul, and all the way down to the southernmost part of mainland - Wilson’s Promontory (Yirruk Wamoon).

The land is protected by the creator, Bunjil, who travels as a wedge-tailed eagle, and by Waa, who protects the many waterways and travels as a crow.