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1919 Yarram Yarram postmark – the town is now Yarram These names are examples of reduplication, a common theme in Australian toponymy, especially in names derived from Indigenous Australian languages such as Wiradjuri. Reduplication is often used as an intensifier such as "Wagga Wagga" many crows and "Tilba Tilba" many waters. The phenomenon has been the subject of interest in popular ...
This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia , Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.
Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. Knock: A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) Knockemstiff
The Nomenclature Act 1935 restored the former names of the towns of Hahndorf and Lobethal, and the Adelaide suburb of Klemzig. [15] About 20 other names were reverted in the 1970s and 1980s; some of them were assigned to larger localities rather than reverting to the original place name, as also shown in the table.
As of 21 February 2019 the Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW, which is maintained by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, lists 265 places that are assigned or recorded as towns in New South Wales. [1] [2] [3]
Similarly, Kenilworth is a place name in England, but Kenilworth, Queensland is reportedly named after a novel of that name. In some cases the place name in England is that of a residence or farm; for example, Hughenden, Queensland is derived from Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire.
They may be termed cities, councils, regions, shires, towns, or other names, and all function similarly. Local government areas cover around 90 per cent of the nation. Significant sections of South Australia and New South Wales are unincorporated, that is, have no defined local government, along with the ACT and smaller sections of Northern ...
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