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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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6. MANANGATANG (VIC) Sounds like: Australia found hip-hop 100 years before anyone else.If this isn't a band name, we don't know what is. But in fact: A country town of 500 souls on the Mallee Highway. If you've arrived at the Manangatang crossroads you're either (a) getting your groove on in the car and repeating the word "Manangatang" over and over, or (b) turning north to travel.
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Luckily for us, Scott found a few more and even went to the effort of delving into the background of these weird and wacky Australian names for NineMSN's travel channel. Here are some of his top picks. 1: Bong Bong, NT.. Cockburn is a town in Western Australia. The story goes that Cockburn got its name from Admiral Sir George Cockburn.
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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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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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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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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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Here are some of the weirdest names you can find on a map. Queensland. When it comes to rude and funny place names, Queensland operates on a whole different wavelength to the rest of Australia. The sunshine state has no shortage of hilariously named creeks, mountains and towns, but they really seem to delight in naming their 'knobs'.
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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.