Maroubra is a beachside suburb of Sydney about 10km south-east of the Sydney CBD. Maroubra beach Morooberra One of the indigenous people encountered by the First Fleeters was Morooberra. The Judge-Advocate, David Collins, who wrote one of the principal accounts: Collins, David. 1975 [1798]. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners. etc., of the Native Inhabitants of that Country : Volume I. Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Ree

Bokhara In a press report in the Sydney Morning Herald for the last day of 2010, there was the following entry: Moderate to major flooding is expected along the Culgoa, Bokhara, Birrie and Narran rivers over the coming weeks. And a little further on in the article: … floodwater from west-flowing NSW rivers is still causing minor to moderate flowing along the Barwon River. Perhaps this was a clue to a puzzle of bagara in the Minyung language, on the far north NSW coastal regi

The Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld ran a mission in the Newcastle, NSW, area in the period 1831-41, and while there studied the language that came to be known as Awabakal . He wrote copiously about it, in a manner that now appears opaque. Here is an example: kurraġtoanbuġgulliko : to cause by personal agency to foam This can be re-presented with simplified spelling and hyphens to separate component parts, together with source references, in the following manner: Australian respelt E

“Latitude 30° 29′ S Longitude 118° 07′ E The townsite of Wialki is … 341 km north east of Perth and 25 km east of Beacon. … Wialki was gazetted a townsite in 1933. The meaning of the name is not known.” [ http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/History+of+country+town+names] The above is taken from the ‘Landgate’ website—as is the following: “Landgate is the Agency responsible for Western Australia’s land and property information. Landgate’s transition from the Depart