30 Hilarious (and Real) Place & Town Names in Australia By Emily McArthur | Staff Writer Last Updated: October 24, 2023 Funny Australian Town Names Australia is known for being the home to some of the world's cutest marsupials as well as some of the deadliest creatures on the planet. According to Geoscience Australia, there are some 364 place names with the word Chinaman and some 624 with Knob. Don't believe us? The Gunbarrel Highway, NT, SA & WA There have been many fanciful tales on how the Gunbarrel Highway got its name. Not least because of marauding gangs robbing settlers at gunpoint.
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20 Mar If you've ever visited Australia or at least did a bit of searching for city names there, you know they like to add all sorts of weird and funny names to their locations. We've rounded the following list with weird city names in Australia that are bound to make you smile and/or wonder what they were thinking when they named these places. 50 Unusual Australian Town Names By snowwhite Updated Wed Dec 31 1969 Share Copy link 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 Avoca Continued Ballina Ballina Continued Bingara Humpybong Located in southeast Queensland, the name Humpybong is derived from the Indigenous word for shelter. The town has come a long way from the simple huts it was named after. It now features a yacht club. Eggs and Bacon Bay 1. FOUL BAY Sounds like: A pungent, weed-infested coast where old seals go to die. But in fact: A beautiful and isolated 16km beach where the fishing is great and your campsite has guaranteed water views.
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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. Humpybong, Margate The name of this town, in south-east Queensland, was derived from the Indigenous word for 'shelter'. But Humpybong has come a long way from the simple huts it describes and now has a yacht club, which hosts an annual regatta called Humpybash. Yorkeys Knob, Far North Queensland 16 funny Australian place names Australia is home to some of the strangest and most rib-tickling place names. Writer Daniel Scott set off to discover some of the best. Here's a few of his favourites. by Australian Times 21-03-2017 16:09 in Entertainment The name of that cave? ' Well It Wasn't There Last Year Cave '. Yes, really, no kidding. Strange Australian places The town of Cowaramup in WA is strange, but it doesn't quite make this list…
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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. 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 —.
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. 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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Boulia (Bool-eya) - Queensland Home to THE major event on the camel racing circuit (yep, it's really a thing), Boulia even plays host to its very own phenomena— the Min Min lights. Coober Pedy (Kooh-BAH Pee-di) - South Australia Here's how to make the most of a long weekend at the festival. 3. Yaraka. Sounds like: Yarh-a-kah. Where is it: 200km south of Longreach. How'd it get the name: Yaraka was named after the indigenous word for white spear grass - the town was provided its name when its rail line and station were established in 1917.
