Jeremy Steele
Trunketabella
One can only surmise what the euphonious NSW place name Trunketabella might mean. We yearn for a translation such as ‘pretty trinkets’,...
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Jeremy Steele
- Feb 6, 2015
- 4 min
Millers Point: yilgan maladul
In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald on 4 February 2015, written by Leesha McKenny, the matter is raised about giving the name of...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 6, 2013
- 2 min
Distant uncle
The Anon Notebook gives ‘Cow-wan’ as the name or place of Ross Farm, the farm of Major Robert Ross of the Marines, the Lieutenant...
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Jeremy Steele
- Apr 15, 2013
- 2 min
Muogamarra
The following was included in a notice about a future public visit to Muogamarra, dated 15 April 2013: Muogamarra Nature Reserve is a...
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Jeremy Steele
- Aug 31, 2012
- 2 min
Mooney Mooney
Mooney Mooney is on the Hawkesbury River. There is a club there where lunch may be had, with a balcony offering a view over the water;...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 15, 2011
- 4 min
Yarrangobilly
Yarrangobilly is in the Snowy Mountains, about 40 km west from the southern portion of the ACT. This places it in Ngarigo country....
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Jeremy Steele
- Oct 8, 2011
- 4 min
Warrang or Warrane — or ngurang?
SYDNEY WORDS One of the earliest recorded names for Sydney, or Sydney Cove, was provided by Philip Gidley King: This was derived from...
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Jeremy Steele
- Jul 31, 2011
- 2 min
Merimbula
A personal diary entry from January 1984 has the record: “Later we all set off by car headed for Twofold Bay150 km away approx. Did this...
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Jeremy Steele
- May 30, 2011
- 5 min
Morooberra, the person, and Maroubra, the place
One of the indigenous people encountered by the First Fleeters was Morooberra. The Judge-Advocate, David Collins, who wrote one of the...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 31, 2010
- 3 min
NSW Words: tracing the Bokhara and other NSW rivers
Bokhara In a press report in the Sydney Morning Herald for the last day of 2010, there was the following entry: Moderate to major...
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Jeremy Steele
- Dec 20, 2010
- 2 min
Sirius Cove (or Mosman Bay)
The Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld ran a mission in the Newcastle, NSW, area in the period 1831-41, and while there studied the language that...
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