Willem Baa Nip
Willem Baa Nip (c. 1836–1885) also known as King Billy, Wormebaneep, William Gore or Billy Wa-wha,{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149011849|title=Family Notices|date=1885-11-12|work=Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859–1929)|access-date=2018-07-22|pages=2}}{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149011917|title=TOWN TALK.|date=1885-11-14|work=Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859–1929)|access-date=2018-07-22|pages=2}}{{cite book |last1=Bride |first1=Thomas Francis |title=Letters from Victorian Pioneers |date=1898 |publisher=Government Press |location=Melbourne |page=310 |url=https://archive.org/details/lettersfromvicto00publiala}} was a member of the Wadawurrung (Wathaurung).
He was born in about 1836, on the banks of a lagoon believed to be located in central Geelong, near what is now Little Malop Street.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/parks/paths/article/item/8d315c47febbc2a.aspx|title=3214: North Shore Walk|website=City of Greater Geelong|access-date=5 June 2018}}
In 1861, the Duneed Aboriginal Land Reserve of one acre was set aside for Wadawurrung balug tribe on Ghazeepore Road just south of Andersons Creek, Mount Duneed.{{Cite news|url=https://torquayhistory.com/frontier-conflict/|title=Frontier Conflict|date=2016-01-17|work=Torquay Museum Without Walls|access-date=2018-07-19|language=en-US}}
Baa Nip would display his skills with traditional weapons at local parades and ask for money from the white-folk in return. On one occasion in 1883 when someone refused to give, Baa Nip exclaimed "Why do you not give, you should give me money, you live in my country."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202508787 |title=THE INTERCOLONIAL CHAM-PION PLOUGHING MATCH. |newspaper=The Ballarat Star |volume=XXVIII |issue=173 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=21 July 1883 |accessdate=7 July 2021 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Willem Baa Nip died on the 11 November 1885 of tuberculosis – 15 years after the last of his contemporaries Dan Dan Nook died of tuberculosis.{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149011849|title=Family Notices|date=1885-11-12|work=Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859–1929)|access-date=2018-07-22|pages=2}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hkd8AwAAQBAJ&q=Duneed+Aboriginal+Land+Reserve&pg=PA272|title=Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country|last=Pascoe|first=Bruce|date=2007|publisher=Aboriginal Studies Press|isbn=9780855755492|language=en}}
He was the last surviving member of the Wadawarrung to witness colonisation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/common/Public/Documents/8d5010363a10469-finalcoggmunicipalheritagestrategysep2017.pdf|title=Geelong HERITAGE STRATEGY 2017–2021|date=10 August 2018|website=City of Greater Geelong|access-date=10 August 2018}} His grave is in Geelong Western Cemetery.{{Cite news|url=https://geelongindy.com.au/indy/13-07-2016/aboriginal-king-in-telstra-battle/|title=Aboriginal 'King' in Telstra battle|date=13 July 2016|work=Geelong Indy|access-date=19 July 2018}}
A mural of Willem Baa Nip is featured in Dennys Place, Central Geelong.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/ahf_event/geelong-civic-and-cultural-precinct-heritage-walk/|title=Geelong Civic and Cultural Precinct Heritage Walk}}
A road constructed in 2015 in Armstrong Creek, Geelong was named Baanip Boulevard in recognition of him.{{Cite news|url=https://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/90m-baanip-boulevard-officially-opens-early/news-story/5b9f22fced48039eeb76d6ae250568e6|title=$90m Baanip Boulevard officially opens early|date=June 3, 2015 |work=Geelong Advertiser|access-date=19 July 2018}}