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[Page 103] Meroe 101
List of Aboriginal names of places & their meanings - Meroe Station
| Billambora | Hard level ground |
| Bullindoon | A species of white bird |
| Boolooroo | A reed |
| Boolooroo | A fly |
| Booryadool | A short fellow |
| Boggabri (correct word Boorgaburrie) | An emu & young ones |
| Bunna Bunna | Very fleshy |
| Bundah | A kangaroo |
| Burrin | A boomerang |
| Bryanunga | Go quickly |
| Bulliranna | A clump of belah trees |
| Burrilda | A coolamon or wooden vessel for carrying water in cut from a large knot on a tree |
| Collimongh | Wide waters |
| Colliebidgelah | a mark near water |
| Curragandi | A track going away |
| Carroll | A forked tree |
| Combadillo | A coolamon, or piece of bark tied at each end & used as a vessel for keeping warer in. |
| Derra | The place where a creek branches from a river |
| Goonal | An old camping ground |
| Gurbey (correct word Gooribee) | A species of tree |
| Keytah | Little black ants |
| Meroe | A large sheet of bark - a camping ground where huts were made of sheets of bark |
| Mungyer | Scratch yourself |
| Mallawa | Flat country |
| Millie | White clay |
| Myamblar | Two waterholes |
| Talmoi | We will eat |
| Tyreel | a reed |
| Wirrah | a leaning tree |
| Wirralah | a scrub turkey |
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