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Trunketabella
One can only surmise what the euphonious NSW place name Trunketabella might mean. We yearn for a translation such as ‘pretty trinkets’,...

Jeremy Steele
Dec 2, 20155 min read
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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...

Jeremy Steele
Feb 6, 20154 min read
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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...

Jeremy Steele
Dec 6, 20132 min read
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Muogamarra
The following was included in a notice about a future public visit to Muogamarra, dated 15 April 2013: Muogamarra Nature Reserve is a...

Jeremy Steele
Apr 15, 20132 min read
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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;...

Jeremy Steele
Aug 31, 20122 min read
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Yarrangobilly
Yarrangobilly is in the Snowy Mountains, about 40 km west from the southern portion of the ACT. This places it in Ngarigo country....

Jeremy Steele
Dec 15, 20114 min read
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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...

Jeremy Steele
Oct 8, 20114 min read
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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...

Jeremy Steele
Jul 31, 20112 min read
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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...

Jeremy Steele
May 30, 20115 min read
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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...

Jeremy Steele
Dec 31, 20103 min read
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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...

Jeremy Steele
Dec 20, 20102 min read
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