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Old 12-09-2010, 05:34 AM   #1
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Australia's funniest place names

Banana - State: QLD - Google Map
Located south of Rockhampton it's well known for it's beef cattle but no bananas as far as the eye can see!

Binnaway
- State: NSW - Google Map
I bet no one forgets to!

Boing Boing
- State: NT - Google Map
Meaning "mosquitoes buzzing" in Aboriginal

Bong Bong
- State: NSW - Google Map
An Aboriginal phrase meaning 'Out of Sight'

Boyland
- State: QLD - Google Map
Popular place with teenage girls and it's where all the boy bands are manufactured, no really.

Broke
- State: NSW - Google Map
A wine growing region in the Hunter Valley.

Burpengary
- State: QLD - Google Map
Meaning the 'place of the wattle trees', apparently not named after some guy called Gary with exessive stomach gas.

Burrumbuttock
- State: NSW - Google Map
According to locals Burrumbuttock means 'bullock's backbone'

Chinaman's Knob
- State: VIC - Google Map
Name of a hill in Victoria

Chinkapook
- State: VIC - Google Map
Means 'waterhole'

Christmas Island
- State: - Google Map
Home of Australia's dentention centre for illegal immigrants, merry christmas!

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Wash - State: SA - Google Map
There's also a creek of the same name...

Cockburn
- State: WA - Google Map
Named in honor of Vice Admiral Sir George Cockburn.

Coffin Bay
- State: SA - Google Map
Named after Vice Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin.

Come By Chance
- State: NSW - Google Map
Wouldn't plan on going there.

Delicate Nobby
- State: NSW - Google Map
A popular tourist destination.

Diapur
- State: VIC - Google Map
A place to go when you've got the..?

Dismal Swamp
- State: TAS - Google Map
As named by the surveyor who had a less than enjoyable time in the area!

Dog Swamp
- State: WA - Google Map
woof woof, bubble bubble...

Doo Town
- State: TAS - Google Map
A place of action!

Dunedoo
- State: NSW - Google Map
Prononced 'dunny-doo', in Aus lingo a dunny is a toilet!

Eggs and Bacon Bay
- State: TAS - Google Map
You'd be dissapointed if they didn't serve a great brekky at the local cafe.

Foul Bay
- State: SA - Google Map
Apparently a much nicer place than the name implies and how can you go wrong when it's just down the road from Tiddy Widdy Beach!

Gingin
- State: WA - Google Map
The Aboriginal meaning is "place of many streams".

Gooloogong
- State: NSW - Google Map
In the small town there are apparently about 250 Gooloogongians!

Goonoo Goonoo
- State: NSW - Google Map
Pronounced "gunna g'noo"

Grong Grong
- State: NSW - Google Map
Meaning 'poor camping ground'

Humpty Doo
- State: NT - Google Map
Home of a boxing croc

Humpybong
- State: QLD - Google Map
Humpybong means "dead shelters" in Aboriginal.

Innaloo
- State: WA - Google Map
Innaloo is the name of an Aboriginal woman of the Dongara region. Sadly it has nothing to do with being in a loo!

Koolyanobbing
- State: WA - Google Map
Aboriginal name meaning 'large hard rocks'

Manangatang
- State: VIC - Google Map
Aboriginal word meaning land and water.

Mangalore
- State: VIC - Google Map
It's Mang-alore not Man galore girls!!

Mooball
- State: NSW - Google Map
Make sure you visit the Moo Moo Cafe if driving by!

Moolooloo
- State: NT - Google Map
Aboriginal for 'slippery ridges'.

Mount Buggery
- State: VIC - Google Map
Bugger, it's a mountain!

Nar Nar Goon
- State: VIC - Google Map
From the aboriginal word for koala.

Nowhere Else
- State: TAS - Google Map
There is also a place called Nowhere Else in SA too!

Orange
- State: NSW - Google Map
And what do they grow there in abindance? Apples of course!

Ozenkadnook
- State: VIC - Google Map
Means "very fat kangaroo" in Aboriginal.

Pimpinbudgie
- State: QLD - Google Map
South of Kingaroy on the way to Toowoomba.

Poowong
- State: VIC - Google Map
From the Aboriginal word for "carrion" or "putrefaction".

Rooty Hill
- State: NSW - Google Map
Disappointingly, the name refers to roots exposed in fields around the hill following floods.

Smiggin Holes
- State: NSW - Google Map
Popular ski resort that got its Scottish name from pools formed in rocks by cattle.

The End of the World
- State: TAS - Google Map
The western most point of Tasmania

Tittybong
- State: VIC - Google Map
If your looking, it's just north of Teddywaddy

Tom Ugly
- State: NSW - Google Map
Named after an aboriginal man that apparently wasn't ugly at all

Upotipotpon
- State: VIC - Google Map
A place half way between Nalinga and Violet Town in Victoria

Useless Loop
- State: WA - Google Map
They mine salt there so it can't be all that useless!

Vite Vite
- State: VIC - Google Map
Vite Vite is near Pura Pura and Nerrin Nerrin in South Western Victoria.

Wagga Wagga
- State: NSW - Google Map
The aboriginal meaning is 'the place of many crows'

Watanobbi
- State: NSW - Google Map
Means ' Hills surrounded by water'

Wee Waa
- State: NSW - Google Map
Aboriginal meaning of Wee Waa is "Fire for Roasting"

Wineglass Bay
- State: TAS - Google Map
Stunningly beautiful location!

Wonglepong
- State: QLD - Google Map
Wonglepong, possibly meaning "forgotten sound" in Aboriginal

Woodie Woodie
- State: WA - Google Map
Home to a Manganese mine.

Woolloomooloo
- State: NSW - Google Map
Aboriginal name meaning young kangaroo

Xantippe
- State: WA - Google Map
Australia's only place name beginning with "X" named after the wife of the philosopher Socrates.

Yackandandah
- State: VIC - Google Map
Small village the other side of Bogan Gate.

Yorkeys Knob
- State: QLD - Google Map
Named after a fisherman from Yorkshire, George Yorkey Lawson.


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Old 12-09-2010, 05:50 AM   #2
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Good list :)



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Old 12-09-2010, 08:54 AM   #3
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haha when I saw the first few names I instantly thought of nar nar goon... cracks me up everytime:p

lol I dont remember them all but anna and I once came up with other names for all those weird places between where I live and melb... was quite hilarious at the time

oh and you cant forget good old garfield!!!



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Old 12-09-2010, 01:42 PM   #4
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Haha they're amusing.

Trying to think of weird names in the UK. There's a place near me called Vange which to me sounds dirty :p



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Old 12-09-2010, 02:37 PM   #5
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:D I some signs for those when I was in Oz last time :P
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Old 12-09-2010, 02:49 PM   #6
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this makes me want to live in Australia. ):



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Old 12-09-2010, 11:07 PM   #7
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Nice names!

Places in England include - Cockermouth, Feckenham, Lickey End and Longbenton

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Old 12-09-2010, 11:11 PM   #8
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Eeeehehe, I'm looking up some from around the world - there's a Cumbum in India :D

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Old 12-09-2010, 11:13 PM   #9
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How is that pronounced?

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Old 13-09-2010, 01:33 AM   #10
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Old 13-09-2010, 01:33 AM   #11
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Hehe this is awesome!!!! Thanks for posting. Hopefully early next year Im going to be back in Australia and driving round in a camper van. Im very tempted to base my trip on this list, go round all the places with weird names!!!!!

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Old 13-09-2010, 02:45 AM   #12
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i want to visit Oz more than ever now!



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Old 13-09-2010, 05:35 PM   #13
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