一位Sydney Morning Herald专栏作者近日撰文回忆了童年时期在维多利亚州Lake Tyers海滩的度假岁月。[1]作者一家每年夏天都从墨尔本郊区Balwyn North驾车前往这个小型海滩社区露营，享受当地自然风景和营地社区活动。[1]Lake Tyers位于Gippsland Lakes与Bass Strait的交汇处，毗邻Ninety Mile Beach——这片不间断海滩长达94英里（151公里），是世界上第四长的此类海滩。[1]作者一家住在由卫理公会教堂管理的营地内的卡其色军用帐篷中。[1]
随后的人生阅历中，作者逐渐了解到这片度假胜地背后的历史。[1]1861年英国圣公会在该地建立了传教站。[1]到1917年，维多利亚州保护土著人委员会实施"集中计划"，强制将维多利亚州所有土著民族迁移到Bung Yarnda——即Lake Tyers使命区的传统名称，这是Gunaikurnai人的传统土地。[1]这段被遮蔽的过去与作者美好的童年记忆形成了鲜明对照。
A columnist recalls spending formative summers at Lake Tyers, a small beachside community in Victoria positioned where Gippsland Lakes meets Bass Strait [1]. Traveling from the Melbourne suburb of Balwyn North required only a few hours by car, making the destination accessible for family camping trips during the Australian summer season [1]. The family stayed in khaki military tents managed by a Methodist church campground, becoming part of the seasonal community that gathered to enjoy the natural landscape [1].
The beach's main attraction is Ninety Mile Beach, recognized as the world's fourth longest continuous beach at 94 miles in length, equivalent to 151 kilometers [1]. What the author later discovered, however, was that this seemingly untouched locale carried a significant though less visible history. An Anglican mission station was established at the site in 1861 [1]. More consequentially, in 1917 the Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines implemented a "concentration scheme" that forcibly relocated all Indigenous Victorian peoples to Bung Yarnda—the traditional name for the Lake Tyers mission area and the ancestral lands of the Gunaikurnai people [1]. The columnist's childhood recollections thus intersected unknowingly with a landscape shaped by colonial dispossession and state-mandated displacement [1].