Australia's weird and wonderful place names | Did You Know?
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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You wouldn’t think twice about the names of most places. Some are just a bit harder to pronounce, and others might cause you to raise an eyebrow. But the names we give to places - even the seemingly weird ones - convey their significance and history and, more often than not, a sense of identity.
Following Dutch and English exploration with Willem Janszoon, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, Terra Australis Incognita was colonised and became known as Australia.
Several of our place names reflect this colonial history, but other place names reflect an older history - that of Indigenous Australians.
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Gazetteer of Australia
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
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Qld place name search
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NT names register extract
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NSW names register extract
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VIC names register extract
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WA place name history
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SA place names search
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Tas place names search
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Mount Dissapointment takes me back to my primary school days. My primary school had an ICT Lab built in 2010 and the Northern windows had uninterrupted views of Mount Dissapointment. A slight head turn to the right and then there were also uninterrupted views of the Dandenong Ranges. Was cool to see the mountains just about every day for 6 straight years
In northern NSW there's a town called "come by chance"....read into that what you will.....
Edward John Eyre was the first person to lay eyes on it. Really, the first person or the first white person...
Go away with your agenda.... You know what was meant by the comment - the first official record of the place was recorded by the guy, who cares about the colour of their skin? We are all people.
@@lukasmor The first official record, because anything made by Aboriginal people is obviously unofficial...
There's a name for this.
"You know what is meant by the comment"
Yes, it means that our very language continues to convey the white supremacist colonial attitudes of the society that stole this land with sustained violence and extreme prejudice.
@@byrongsmith you have a right to think this way and I have a right to disagree. Let’s agree on that
Hmm... I had always thought original English Cartographers had too much Navy Rum and had fun making up funny names and write them on the map ; )
one of my favourite names I have come across on the map is in New Mexico: Truth or consequences
"Useless Loop" near Exmouth WA
I am a Canadian who has been to Humpty Doo, south of Darwin - fine place.
You missed Bald Knob near the Sunshine Coast. Also, any fans of _The Powerpuff Girls_ will be happy to know the City of Townsville is a real place.
THis lady just said "first person to lay eyes on Lake eyre"..
REALLLLLY, so what about the 60,000 years of previous people who just happened to cover their eyes as they walked past huh?
Stupid. They had their eyes closed.
Are you sure the people we call aboriginals were here first?
@@strangenameforaband342 yep, they been here for 60,000 years. Cave paintings and such prove that. Oldest living culture on earth.
We are still invisible!!
get over it
Mother of Ducks Lagoon, South Gundagai NSW, Australia- WTF ??
I’m from Wat-a-nobb-i 😂
Very cool vid actually. Refreshing to learn something different about our mighty joint🤘🇦🇺🤘🍻
all them knobs and you left out Yorkey!!!!!
If we call wagga wagga wagga why don't we call woy woy woy ?
Wuk wuk
haha ... ha
LOL Thats funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
wooloomooloomooloo
@@chalermako ha didn't know that
My favourite Nar Nar Goon 🇦🇺 coordinates: -38.0979326, 145.5904864
Nar Nar Goon ....Great little country hic town ....I live not far from thr 😉🙂
Also with Tooradin .....Spell it backwards ...Then say it slowly 🙎♀️😳🤤😨🤣🤣🤣🤣
I live parallel with Bald Knob Rd.
Fun fact about Orange, it was originally called blackman swamp after james blackman who explored the area, an ancesstor on my fathers side
Theres a town in Queensland that I went to that was called Blackbutt
with two t’s
It's named after the tree
Come to Sydney’s north shore. Lots of the suburb names are aboriginal. Turramurra, Wahroonga, Warrawee Etc...
turtle head island
You forgot to mention Kickatinalong.
MaggotDiggo1
And “Wheelabarrowback” 😂🤣😂
It’s very common here in Indonesia, practical naming, objective naming
I grew up in Eumundi, near Mooball and Didilibah.
*that guy below is intense btw
I like the name River Lett (Hartley NSW) - rivulet misspelt.
Watanobbi exists
I'm pretty sure that John Eyre wasn't the first person to lay eyes on this lake.
Yeah! pretty bloody big oversight.
First European explorer.
@@dementos7806, that's not what she said.
JustAnotherBigAl It's implied.
@@dementos7806, it really didn't sound like it.
Oonagallabi, Gilligulgul, Muckadilla, Guluguba, Gurulmundi, Woleebee, Baking Board, and the list goes on.
Wowwww never heard of those places before 😳🙎♀️
@@LeaCollingwoodMagpies First one is N.T., others are Queensland (Darling Downs area)
@@hycart7804
Ahhhhhhhh ok cool ....Thanks for that 🙂👍👍
I quite like Lake Nameless in Tasmania.
Love your videos April! Keep it up
There's also 'Lake Disappointment' in Western Australia.
HAHAHA some locations in very weird and funny ENGLISH named in this continent.
I still love the name by aboriginals like some in American natives, English, French and Dutch in the US that they represent the extention of lands had been colonized by history and culture. It's meaningful.
i have seen some weird place names in australia (im not aussie) but i swear to god one day i was riding my motorbike and i saw a street called Batman street......... thats weirddddddddddddd
@Mauricio Freisleben That street would be named after John Batman, an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer (1801-1839).
Melbourne was going to be called Batmania after Sir John Batman if I recall
@@johnl4469 and murderer*
@@prettypurplebelle yup, read your history books people and watch the ABC documentary on the subject of the dodgy deals he did, not just with the indigenous people
Another fantastic video, thanks. So cool
this was awesome should do a longer video on this
The language and terms and structure are prescribed with respect to the mechanics of the medium of which they are expressed, new title, same words, similar concept.
What was that word used by April near the end - the gasasea of Australia? I can't get it.
I think you mean the Gazetteer of Australia
Heaven forbid been called PC but Edward John Eyre was probably not the first person to lay eyes on Lake Eyre. Also the Other Side of the Moon is a surf spot roughly half way between Dunsborough and Yallingup, not much else their at all really. In WA there's a town in the South-West called Mullyup, one for all the stoners out there.
Did the Dutch get all British colonies before Britain?
Fantastic place names
More of this pls
Coogee (WA, coo gee)
Goodnight (Victoria)
Lakes Entrance Vic. Which is actually a man made entrance to the gippsland lakes
Bannockburn? 🤷♀️🤔
What about milang what a strange name
Are we not going to talk about "Townsville"?
i live near cockburn, it's not that bad.
sorry are they going to change the name of that street???? boundary ??... its in brisbane isnt it
Wagga Wagga
Nulla Nulla
Violet Crumble
Rooty Hill
😂🤣😂🤣
mt disappointment will callaghan went missing
“The other side of the moon” is a restaurant... not a place. Awkward... quality research....
Yes that's right, ( just look on Maps) it's in Naturaliste, WA (Margaret river area), right next to the national park
You mean Eyre was the first 'white man' to lay eyes on the lake! Not the' first person' as you say!
where are the native peoples and what were the names they gave to these places?
Started crying dark is genocide dark is not knowing my culture or my story. Dark.
Person who made this video name is..
Chung Li
By the time Europeans got to Australia they were bored
While bushwalking with friends in the Blue Mountains we found an undocumented but spectacular waterfall at the end of East Creek. It was quickly named "Wallaby Falls" because of the dead Wallaby we found at the bottom (Wallaby "falls" get it?) but it ended up as East Creek Falls.
Rooty Hill
thank you to the great british empire for the lifestyle and privileges we all enjoy today.
These places already had names. It pisses me off when people changed them.
so the natives dont name places or the names they named it dont matter
Clearly you didn't watch the video....idiot.
You either weren't paying attention or didn't bother watching the video at all, geez
the host needs to loose her millennial angst
some very interesting choice of place names in Australia whether its in English or the native tongue of the tangata whenua (indigenous peoples) of the area
Are they about to start gas fraking there?
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did you know that to call an australian an 'aussie' is racist?
if you called a pakistani a 'paki' you would definitely be called a racist, so what's the difference?
History, context and also nothing is the short answer. If someone uses a word derogatorily then it becomes viewed as a derogatory word, but the word itself is just a word.
i assume you are an aborigine; i know an asian girl who considers herself to be a coloured person; she says she doesn't need white apologists speaking on her behalf; personally, i don't think i am white or negroes are black, (we can be negroes just for one day!); we all have a touch of colour about our skin.
the word that puzzles many is 'nigger'; were 'blacks' called that before the word was recognised as being a colour or after; i try to name people by the country they come from, ie, you are an australian, not an aussie or an abbo.
all the best.
ps, elysse perry is a stunning looker & a great cricketer; it's not very pc but it's true.
The commentator is a poor speaker. Needs elocution lessons.