Name of Place
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Meaning or Reason why it was Given |
Name of Place |
Meaning or reason why it was Given |
Ngunma-timka (Waterhole Yandama) |
Breast-milk - (white water) found here. |
Koorrawulpul (now Mt. Poole Stn.) |
hole in Creek with never failing water |
Tirra-Ngumma (Tilcha Creek) |
Creek where ants abound, or antwater |
Yandaminta a place on Mt Poole |
Stoney Creek leading to open country |
Petra Galoo (place on Tilcha) |
Mulga apple trees about this place |
Wanda warra (now Boolke) |
open country abounding in small lakes |
Minna Cuntimta[?](waterhole Yandama Creek) |
See! Look! Who killed? where a black fellow was found murdered years ago. |
Nompah (Creek much dead timber about it near the Quensland border) |
Debris left by flood waters |
Carnie wompie (swamp on Tilcha) |
Carries home. |
Bindy Wilpa (creek or swamp Yancannia |
Where the water if [?] makes the stomach ache |
Wilcoona (waterhole on Tilcha |
Wilca-goona. waterhole frequented by dingoes |
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Tirra-Minna (a lake on Tilcha) |
a swamp surrounded by box trees |
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Cunyah (a swamp on Tilcha) |
Canegrass. swamp |
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Tiddywoolly (original name for Milparinka) |
Long creek with permanent permanent waterhole |
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N[?]in Guinnia (now Yantara) |
Big sand hills abound about here. |
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Wonnaminta (a station. Milparinka District) |
Creek with long waterhole shaped like Boomerang. |
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Prinna-ngapa (now Cobham Lake) |
Big water |
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Mooly-mungu (now Yancannia Creek) |
Long Creek with little gum trees growing along its banks |
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Koorningberry. a mountain on Mord[?] St |
Big Hill - or mountain range |
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Bin Birri - Mount Arrowsmith |
Big sharp pointed hill. |
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Midtewatta - a hill near Milparinka called the Peak |
Big sharp peaked hill |
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