Sir George was born in London in 1772 and was a renowned British naval officer, eventually becoming Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord. The story goes that Cockburn got its name from Admiral Sir George Cockburn. Travel inspiration and destination guides, plus tips and hacks, straight to your inboxImmerse yourself in nature. Read the September 2020 issue of Qantas magazine 15 Surprising Things to Do Near WA’s Coolest Regional City, SponsoredImmerse Yourself in the Ancient Daintree RainforestYour Complete Guide to Far North Queensland’s Palm Cove15 Surprising Things to Do Near WA’s Coolest Regional City, SponsoredWhy Margaret River Deserves a Spot on Your Aussie Bucket List, SponsoredWIN a Luxury Stay at Sal Salis Ningaloo Reef, Sponsored These days, a mention of Rooty Hill to any Sydneysider is likely to be met with dour or guilty looks as they recall a night out at the suburb’s infamous RSL club… possibly even living up to the name’s more modern, lurid Aussie connotation.Scott says that, “Tom Ugly Point, near Sylvania in Sydney’s south, is named after an Aboriginal Australian who lived in a rock shelter in this area during the mid-19th century. Banana - State: QLD - Google Map Located south of Rockhampton it's well known for … Copyright © Blue Sky Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Check the winning Thunderball numbers here!CHRIS’S KITCHEN | Our resident Aussie chef in London is a sucker for Italian food and has this week prepared...Abbott confirmed that he has had some discussions with members of the British government. It is said that Diapur was named for the area’s black swans.Navigator Matthew Flinders named a bay in South Australia Foul Bay in 1802 when the ship he was on had a hard time finding solid anchorage, “This bay on the Yorke Peninsula is far nicer than its moniker suggests, says Scott.Now this is my kind of town! But he adds, he was mistaken and quickly corrected by locals who have pointed out, a place called Nowhere Else can be found on the Eyre Peninsula in SA too!While your imagination can run wild as to why this western Sydney suburb was named Rooty Hill, disappointingly, says Scott, the hill was named when flood waters running down the hill’s slope exposed tree roots. I Still Call Australia Home - Peter Allen It's soppy and sappy, but the Boy from Oz nailed it with this love song to our country.
From Come By Chance in NSW to Break-Me-Neck Hill in Tasmania, we’ve found some of the strangest place names in Australia and the stories behind the names. 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 Scott said he found out that Bong Bong means “mosquitoes buzzing” in an Aboriginal dialect.Scott recognises that Bong Bong won in a coin toss over Blighty in NSW – which he also found pretty weird.Come By Chance was immortalised in a poem by Banjo Patterson. Other members of the hiking party and within the Melbourne Walking Club started using the name and it eventually appeared on maps and official acceptance followed.Daniel Scott tells of Nowhere Else near Devonport in north-western Tasmania saying, “there really is nowhere else, like Nowhere Else. Do Aussies know that in the UK there are many Cockburns, and it is pronounced Co-bern’ there (I wonder why)?Sounding like something a baby might wear, Diapur, in Victoria’s Wimmera region, just beat Dunedoo in New South Wales on Scott’s list as Australia’s oddest sounding place beginning with “D”. When it comes to rude, baffling and hilarious place names, Tasmania really outshines the mainland. Inspired the classic Aussie song … Whether you desire for music to take you traveling from the comfort of your own home, or if you’re just interested to see how many songs out there mention Tamworth , Townsville or Tennant Creek , then this is the place for you! A list of some of the bizarre, unusual and funny Australian city and place names. But before you grab the tonic water, Gingin is a town north of Perth and means place of many streams’ in an Aboriginal dialect.Scott says that Humpybong means dead shelters’ and was named so after British settlers abandoned the area choosing to settle in Brisbane instead. Writer Daniel Scott set off to discover some of the best. Governor King came up with the name in 1802. Western Australia has Other Side of the Moon, and Queensland has Mount Breast and Ugly Creek, but the Apple Isle seems to have a much higher concentration of oddly-named locations, and even mapmakers agree.

He adds that, according to research, Come By Chance got its name from “pastoralists who happened upon a large vacant block, while en route somewhere else.Cockburn is a town in Western Australia. Come By Chance is a small settlement in north-western New South Wales, says Scott. According to Wikipedia, “There is circumstantial evidence that the mountain was named by a member of the Melbourne Walking Club who, during 1934, hiked along the Buckland-Buffalo watershed to Mount Selwyn, and then onto the Barry Mountains to Mount Speculation, followed the Crosscut Saw to Mount Howitt and finished at Merrijig via the Howqua River.

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