Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
In the 1850s, the newly-independent colony of Victoria set out on an ambitious project to build the largest water infrastructure system in Australia: a 32 kilometre pipeline from Yan Yean Reservoir to Melbourne. This is my journey to walk its length and understand its history and stories through hidden ruins, overgrown tracks, impassable bridges and stinging nettles.
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging and their extensive historical connection to these places.
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My website: philipmallis.com
Route taken with points of interest: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/the-pipe-walk-route_643670
Port Phillip Pioneers Group history of the Yan Yean Pipe: https://portphillippioneersgroup.org.au/pppg5ex.htm
Bob Padula on the Yan Yean Reservoir: bpadula.tripod.com/maroondahaqueduct/id19.html
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IMAGE CREDITS
- 'Yan Yean Reservoir', State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/52097
- 'Open Forest Country Near Yan Yean', ca.1858, State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/294441
- 'Yan Yean flume, Plenty River', Charles Rudd, 1892-1902, State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/305697
- 'Repairing the Yan Yean Aqueduct', Ebenezer and David Syme, State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/250968
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MUSIC CREDITS
- bensound.com
In the 1850s, the newly-independent colony of Victoria set out on an ambitious project to build the largest water infrastructure system in Australia: a 32 kilometre pipeline from Yan Yean Reservoir to Melbourne. This is my journey to walk its length and understand its history and stories through hidden ruins, overgrown tracks, impassable bridges and stinging nettles.
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging and their extensive historical connection to these places.
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My website: philipmallis.com
Route taken with points of interest: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/the-pipe-walk-route_643670
Port Phillip Pioneers Group history of the Yan Yean Pipe: https://portphillippioneersgroup.org.au/pppg5ex.htm
Bob Padula on the Yan Yean Reservoir: bpadula.tripod.com/maroondahaqueduct/id19.html
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IMAGE CREDITS
- 'Yan Yean Reservoir', State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/52097
- 'Open Forest Country Near Yan Yean', ca.1858, State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/294441
- 'Yan Yean flume, Plenty River', Charles Rudd, 1892-1902, State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/305697
- 'Repairing the Yan Yean Aqueduct', Ebenezer and David Syme, State Library of Victoria (out of copyright): http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/250968
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MUSIC CREDITS
- bensound.com
