Yambuk /ˈjæmbʌk/ is a town in Victoria, Australia. The name Yambuk is an Aboriginal word thought to mean "red kangaroo", "full moon" or "big water". Shell middens in the limestone cliffs to the east of the town indicate that Aboriginal people had lived in the area for at least 2300 years. European settlement took place in the area when Lieutenant Andrew Baxter and his wife Annie Baxter squatted the Yambuck pastoral run in 1843. The township was established in the 1850s, the Post Office opening 1 March 1859.