WEIRD NAMES Western Australia
Australia is a weird, wild and wonderful place - and its tongue-twisting town names are no exception. From scorching Central Australia to chilly Tasmania, read on to learn how to pronounce these place names that even native Australians struggle to wrap their mouth around.
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For the slick movie buffs out there, Silverton is a groovy town located at the very far west of NSW—around 25km from Broken Hill. The unusual Aussie town isn't shy of a former movie set or two and has been dubbed the "Outback Hollywood" of Australia, Silverton sports a quintessential Aussie landscape (think roaring, red dirt and.
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There are so many funny names in Australia that we would need 2 days to go through them all. Here are a few for your entertainment: Humpybong. Eggs and Bacon Bay. Sausage Gully. Quality Knob. Bumbunga. Foul Bay. The End of the World.
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50 Unusual Australian Town Names. By snowwhite. Updated Thu Jan 01 1970. Looking beyond Sydney, Adelaide and Victoria for unusual Australian place names? 1; 2; 3; All; Albury. Albury Continued. Almaden. Almaden Continued. Aramac. Aramac Continued. Armidale. Armidale Continued. Avoca.
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Pisspot Creek. Yes, once again it's a real town name in Tasmania. You couldn't make these place names up even if you tried. If you're thinking of heading Down Under, consider adding some of these quirky place names to your must-visit list. ou are reading "30 Funniest Town and Place Names Found Across Australia" Back To Top.
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It's pretty as a picture though. 3. Tom Ugly. Located in southern NSW, it's believed that the town is named after a resident, Tom Huxley, which became Tom Ugly when the local aboriginal people had difficulty pronouncing it. Or perhaps there was no issue with pronunciation, and he just wasn't genetically blessed. 4.
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Banana. Located south of Rockhampton lies the town that is today known as Banana. It was established in 1860 and, despite the name's suggestion, there are no bananas grown here; rather the town was named after the 'banana-coloured' bullock that was responsible for herding wild cattle for the local stockman. Upon his death the town was.
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Mount Meharry, WA. Strewth! As far as requests go, it's fairly direct. But Western Australia's highest mountain isn't named after an irresistibly handsome bloke named Harry who drove the ladies wild with lust. In less saucier fashion, the 1259m peak got its name from the state's chief geodetic surveyor, William Meharry, back in the '50s.
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Never has Australia's love of a punt been so obvious. Marvel Loch is a small, outback-dwelling town located nowhere near a lake, river or a body of water of any significance, let alone a Scottish Loch of the marvellous variety. Instead, Marvel Loch, a mining town, began life in 1906 and was named after the winning horse of the 1905 Caulfield Cup.
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Eamon Evans's 280-page Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: the stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names lists hundreds of place names — colonial, Aboriginal, German, and other.
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Bumcooler Flat. Spanker Knob. Bullshit Hill. Stinkhole. Cock Wash Creek. Pisspot Creek. Yet Australians don't blink an eye when people mention their odd place names. With an island continent that is almost the size of Europe, it would be easy enough to run out of regular names to call local landmarks and towns.
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Sometimes politically incorrect, always hilarious, our country really is 'chockas' with weird and funny place names. The Marvellous Map of Actual Australian Place Names is a large wall map identifying and locating over 1,000 of the funniest, rudest and quirkiest Aussie towns, streets, mountains, lakes and all manner of geographic features.
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Poowong happens to be the unfortunate place name for a small town of around 600 in the South Gippsland Shire of Victoria. It is located around 111 kilometers from Melbourne and has no real claim to fame besides the funny name. Nowhere Else, TAS. Nowhere Else is the unique place name for a town in Tasmania that surprisingly has just about.
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Eamon Evans's 280-page Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: the stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names lists hundreds of place names — colonial, Aboriginal, German, and other — that adorn our country. It is an entertaining, non-academic read with a playful manner, which charts place names from the serious - the many names for Australia, for example - to the jocular.
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Victoria. Near Ballarat's Goldfields is the delightfully named Whipstick Scrub, where you can explore the forest and try your hand at panning for gold. According to the National Library of Australia, the first gold was found in the area in 1884. Elsewhere in Victoria, you will find Titwobble Lane, Teddy Bears Gap, Ding-A-Ding and Sausage Gully.
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The town of Cowaramup in WA is strange,. Next, my thanks to list-directory.info for their very extensive list of strange Australian place names. And finally, my thanks to the Australia Geographic magazine I picked up whilst Visiting the doctor recently for the inspiration for this post. It was a simple, one-page article in which they made up.
