The phenomenon has been the subject of interest in popular culture, including the song by Australian folk singer Greg Champion (written by Jim Haynes and Greg Champion), Don't Call Wagga Wagga Wagga.[1] British comedian Spike Milligan, an erstwhile resident of Woy Woy, once wrote "Woy it is called Woy Woy Oi will never know".[2]
A local government area in Victoria. The name is also applied to a mountain (Mount Baw Baw), and to a national park (Baw Baw National Park). Baw Baw is an Aboriginal word meaning "echo".[5]
A small town in the Shire of Moora[8] The name is Aboriginal in origin and is the word for stick or skewer on which a coat is hung. The doubling of the word is to indicate many of them.
The name Bongil Bongil is the name of a sub-group of the Gumbaingerie tribe which occupied the general area bounded by the Clarence River to the north, the Nambucca River to the south, Dorrigo to the west and the Pacific Ocean.[12]
The place name means "poor country with no animals to provide food" and is Aboriginal in origin.[14] The name is applied to a locality, a national park (Boonoo Boonoo National Park), a river (Boonoo Boonoo River) and a waterfall.
Budgee Budgee is a locality near Mudgee. The origin of the name is unknown, but it first appeared on old maps so is possibly a surveyor's interpretation of an aboriginal name.[15]
A parish of the County of Bourke."Maribyrnong: Action in Tranquility", the history of Maribyrnong, gives the meanings of several aboriginal terms. Cut Cut Paw is a corruption of the words for "a clump of she-oaks".
May be derived from the local Aboriginal word for 'black ants'.[31]or
May be derived from an Aboriginal word, Kabi language, kauin kauin, a variant of kutchin indicating red, from the red soil area drained by Kin Kin Creek.[32]
Lang Lang was formerly known as Carrington, after Lord Carrington.[34] The town is named in honour of an early settler in region, called Lang.[35] In the Woiwurrung language, the name Lang Lang,[36] also spelled Laang Laang, meant "stones" or "stony".[37]Lang Lang is also believed to mean "bush bush";[citation needed] or a "clump of trees".[34] Also see Lang Lang River and Little Lang Lang River.
'Wagga wagga' is probably a Wiradjuri term for 'many crows'; with wagga, an onomatopoeic word, imitating the sound of the crow's call. 'Waggan', for one type of crow and 'waggura', for another have been recorded; also: reeling (a sick man or a dizzy man); to dance, slide or grind.[48]
The word Wangi has been translated variously as water, night owl or dark green tree so that Wangi Wangi would mean place of much water, many night owls or many dark green trees. Early settlers and fishermen used the word to mean peninsula and Point Wolstoncroft (in the locality of Gwandalan) was called "Little Wangi". Captain Dangar's 1826 sketch of Lake Macquarie marked Wangi Point as "Wonde Wonde". There is no explanation of the marked difference between spelling and pronunciation.[50]
The Culgoa River is a river that is part of the Darling catchment within the Murray–Darling basin and is located in South West Queensland.
Coolac is a village in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia in Gundagai Council. At the 2021 census, Coolac had a population of 244.
Gulaga, dual-named as Mount Dromedary and also referred to as Mount Gulaga, is a mountain located in the south coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It rises above the village of Central Tilba and is within the Gulaga National Park. At its highest point, it measures 806 metres (2,644 ft) above sea level.
Collingullie is a village 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The village is located on the Sturt Highway, between Wagga Wagga and Narrandera, at the crossroads with the road to Lockhart.
Phegans Bay is a suburb within the local government area of the Central Coast Council on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Downside is a farming community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 15 kilometres north west from Wagga Wagga and 24 kilometres south east from Coolamon.
Harefield is a locality in New South Wales, Australia. It in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 11 kilometres south of Junee and 35 kilometres north by road from Wagga Wagga.
Rosewood is a village community and locality in the southeast part of the Riverina, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) southeast from Carabost and 19 kilometres (12 mi) northwest from Tumbarumba. At the 2016 census, Rosewood had a population of 214. The village is administered by two local governments; the northern part of the locality by the Greater Hume Shire and the southern part of the locality by the Snowy Valleys Council. The village of Rosewood is within the Snowy Valleys Council area.
Cowabbie is a rural community in the central part of the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. It is situated by road about 29 kilometres (18 mi) south of Ardlethan and 32 kilometres (20 mi) north of Matong along the Wagga Wagga road.
Kapooka is a suburb in the south-west of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
Gregadoo is a suburb of Wagga Wagga situated about 6 km South South-East of Lake Albert, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated by road, about 9 kilometres south east from Wagga Wagga.
Charles Sturt University is a suburb and location for Charles Sturt University's Wagga Wagga Campus and is located in the suburb of Estella.
The Moonie River (Mooni River) is a river in Shire of Balonne, Queensland and Walgett Shire, New South Wales, both in Australia. It is a perennial river of the Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin.
The Tarcutta Creek, part of the Murray Darling basin, is mostly a perennial stream located in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.
Eunanoreenya is a rural suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
Gobbagombalin is a predominantly farming community in the central east part of the Riverina and a suburb of Wagga Wagga. A portion of Gobbagombalin adjacent to the suburb of Estella and to the North of Old Narrandera Road was rezoned for residential purposes under the Wagga Wagga Local Environmental Plan 2010 in July 2010, with suburban development of area commencing in 2013. The suburban part of Gobbagombalin is being marketed under various names including Estella Rise and Estella Heights, as well as Gobbagombalin, despite Estella being a separate locality further to the east of Gobbagombalin.
Boonoo Boonoo is a locality in New South Wales, Australia.
Whian Whian State Conservation Area is one of the protected areas of New South Wales, operated by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
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