Box 5 Folder 2: Queensland place names, 1900 - Page 70

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Name of Place         Mening or Reason why it was given

Urrie       white ant

Moolah       hand fishing net

Tinkah       inside fat of fish

Piere       green-beak parrot

Yooroo       rope or vine

Dippeepieing       "Dieppe" means honey-bird; "pie-ing" means to kill

Ya-wung       large hornet

Tum-bung       edible fruit

Boon-boon       swamp pheasant

Yam       plane turkey

Pinkah         hat

Mondore-ore       place of seeds

Womung-ore       place of small fish

piere-biere       shell of a cuttle fish

Toondong-ore         place of wood

Coolah       large honey-suckle tree

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