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Aboriginal names with Meanings 217
Native name English Equivalent
| Merungle | old man saltbush |
| gunaga | a collection of waterholes |
| Tibora ----- | }Named from high trees climbed } to make observations |
| Keewong | Where the moon camped |
| Boolbadah | {Where camp was being made but {was for some reason abandoned |
| Munjackata | a kind of pipe clay |
| Wee-in-jellibah | A camp where wood was scarce |
| Dickadi | where man fell in waterhole |
| Boonoona | white ground |
| goonah | grey water snake |
| Mimda mutta - | {Hermuts home (so called because a {man lived there alone and would {not go about with other Blacks |
| [Koolanjin]? | Forked sticks stuck in the ground |
| Winangubbah | Where Dingo stole meat |
| Murrumbong | good place or good for game |
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