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| 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 | |
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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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