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Tiaro Station
Baciple From a kind of lizard which was found there or of which the blacks were afraid.
Benarigee A bloodwood tree.
Boonara Doo
Boowoogum Not Know.
Curra "Currie" Name of a bush or tree which grew there.
Cooroy An opossum.
Cooyah Because wattle trees grew there.
Doongul A bandicoot.
Dickabram From a Kind of yam which grew there.
Gigoomgan "Gigoom" Cockatoo, "Yan" go away, because cockatoos were rarely seen on the limestine country near where Gigoomgan Station was formed.
Gootchie A ground iguana.
Gympie A stinging nettle or tree, also a small red insect which causes the itch called scrub itch.
Glengarloom Native name "Gungulum" a leather head, a species of Queensland bird.
Goorah A magpie.
Gundiah Round stones.
Imbil A big tree.
Kanighan A range of mountains
Kilkivan "Goodinga" Moreton Bay Ash trees.
Miva in the early days an old horse was left on a flat by the Murma Creek and the blacks called the flat Miva, Some blacks give the meaning as 'A chestnut tree."
Mungar A spotted gum tree.
Maree A Kangaroo.
Neardie Charcoal.
Nerang Very small.
Oomainlum Water running over rocks.
Poonah A bloodwood tree.
Taroom A sort of wild plum.
Tiaro Native name "Tieero", long waterholes or chain of lagoons.
Teebar Native name "Thebarre", oysters, because the creek there had a large quantity of mussels or fresh water oysters in it.
Tagigan "Benang" Your ears.
Thargo Home or camp.
Walvi A calf.
Woocoo Mopoke a species of Queensland bird.
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