Aboriginal Place Names - Signs
 ngala ngala: a special club |  “Kurraba’ or garaba was the name of a multi - pronged fishing spear used in Mosman and all round the harbour, by the men. The woman caught fish from lines in canoes. |  Biraban, whose name meant ‘wedge-tailed eagle‘ — or perhaps any big bird. |
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 Biraban, whose name meant ‘wedge-tailed eagle‘ — or perhaps any big bird. |  Australian language, which came to be known as
Awabakal. |  Awaba means a flat place. The flat place referred to is the big Lake Macquarie. |
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 Street names in Turramurra:‘warigal’ means ‘dog’, as does dingo |  Sign: middle of nowhere
There is not much of a central business district in Nurina featured below, indeed not much of anything. This is another Aboriginal name but far far away. |  Turramurra: it might have meant ‘trees’ |
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 Wayi wayi might have meant a body of water, as at Woy Woy, or the waters of the Harbour. Near Kirribilli there is a Weye-Weye Point, with -eye pronounced as in the word ‘eye’. |  wonga wonga: a pigeon |
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