List of Australian Place Names of Aboriginal Origin - Non-Aboriginal Place Names That Are Assumed To Be Aboriginal

Non-Aboriginal Place Names That Are Assumed To Be Aboriginal

  • Aramac (a corruption of the name Robert Ramsey Mackenzie, Premier of Queensland)
  • Bellingen
  • Bendigo
  • Beulah (Biblical Hebrew, From Book of Isaiah)
  • Cloncurry (Gaelic)
  • Como (Italian)
  • Connemara (Gaelic)
  • Dimboola (Sinhalese)
  • Engadine (German)
  • Eromanga
  • Glenorie (Gaelic)
  • Gwydir River (Welsh)
  • Madura (Sanskrit?)
  • Malabar (Malayam)
  • Menai (Welsh)
  • Minto (ultimately a Scottish placename)
  • Miranda (Spanish, after a character in The Tempest)
  • Nangiloc (reverse spelling of Colignan)
  • Nullarbor ("no trees" in Latin)
  • Pymble (after Robert Pymble)
  • Telopea (Greek, the waratah)
  • Temora (a poem by Ossian)
  • Waitara (Maori)
  • Wallacia (Named after Robert Wallace)
  • Wangara ((Wan(neroo)) + (Gnan)gara)
  • Wittenoom (after Frank Wittenoom)

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