Box 4 Folder 2: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 85

Name of Place	Meaning or Reason Why it was Given
Kiama	Plenty: i.e. re.. Kiarrama (large figtree on Kiama Beach)
Cambewarra	Fire Hill
Geringong	Fearful: or I fear, myself
Illiwera Illowra	White Clay Beautiful, plentiful place	from these or one of them 'Illawarra' is probably derived
Bang-gang	Old, gray
Berri Were, or Bherwerre	Make haste: according to another authority means large expansion of water
Nowra	You and me
Coolangatta	Elbow hill or Large hill
Bulla Bulla - from where 'Bulli' -	meaning two Mountains Kembla and Keira
Bouderee (or Jervis Bay)	large fishing place
Coogee	Rotten kelp
Garie or Geara	said to be named after 2 bushrangers named Geary who camped there at National Park: (Geo. Dent Senr is my authority)
Woolowa	from where[?] Wooloware Bay Botany - meaning muddy flat.
Watta	A point of land jutting out into the sea
Pirrama	alleged doubtful native name for Pyrmont. meaning a Rocking stone
Currambene	Heap of rocks
Wogle	One eye : Tom Ugly's Point, named after an aboriginal who suffered under this disability.
Woolonga or Wollongong

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