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Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons: [citation needed] Historically, European explorers and surveyors may have asked local Aboriginal people the name of a place, and named it accordingly. Where they did not ask, they may have heard the place was so-named.
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 ...
The name is a corruption of Yau’ar-nga’ri, meaning literally, sing-play, or song and dance, referring to a corroboree ground. It is said to have first applied to a site near the mouth of Breakfast Creek. It is possible, however, that the name was independently applied to a site at the place at presently known as Enoggera. [2]
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.
Names of places in Australia Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. L. Lists of places in Australia (4 C, 37 P) N.
The presence of German-derived place names was seen as an affront to the war effort at the time. [ citation needed ] The names were often changed by being anglicised (such as Peterborough ), or by being given new names of Aboriginal origin (Kobandilla, Karawirra) or in commemoration of notable soldiers ( Kitchener and Holbrook ) or World War I ...
Boodjar Nyungar Placenames is an online resource of Western Australian Nyungar Aboriginal place names. It is the result of a research project into place names in the Southwest Western Australia region in which Nyungar have traditional associations. Boodjar is the Nyungar word for "country". [1] Smaller areas in the larger area also have the ...
The Act also specifies the procedures for formalising names. In recent years, the board has been given the power to preserve and promote Aboriginal languages and acknowledge Aboriginal culture through place naming in NSW. The board does this by preferencing traditional Aboriginal place names or names with Aboriginal origin wherever it can.