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Hill End
List of Native Names of places in The Hill End
District with their meining, or the reason why the
blacks gave such names - for the information of the
Anthropoligical Society of Australasia
| Belaradah | Oak scrub - Belar - the oak . dah place of |
| Boiga | Maggots |
| Bullen Bullen | {A lonely place - Bullen - quiet - Bullen Bullen {the repetition of the word is used to emphasise {its very quiet |
| Bundi | Fighting with Nulla Nullas |
| Burrimul | Blow flies |
| Cadungla | Small lizard |
| Curragurra or curra curra |
Heavey Stones |
| [Crudine?] | Iguana |
| Derrilin | Shooting or falling Stars |
| Dun Dun | Frogs |
| Gundi | Stringy bark tree also over there or far away or Bark huts |
| Gooriwa | Big Rocks |
| Goodawada | Laughing Jackass |
| Illabunda | Swallows |
| Mookerawa | Ironbark trees |
| Tambaroora | Ibis (A large beaked bird) |
| [Tatuali?] | A knob of wood scooped out to carry water in |
| Toolamanang | A Short spear |
| Tunabidgie | A long spear |
| Trianbil | Sinew |
| Ulla mulla | White Gum tree |
| Wallerawa | Blacks Quarrelled,, and seperated |
| Waurdong. | Spoiled wood. (Black Making something & spoiled it-) |
| Warramagullion | Dogs fighting |
| Willoring | Strained Honey. (or Honey running out of a tree) |
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