GLORY HOLE CAVE, New South Wales

Follow Glory Hole Walk along the Yarrangobilly River, near Little Glory Hole Creek, and you'll come across the Glory Hole Cave. Poke around inside this cave and other nearby ones in the Kosciuszko National Park.
Glory Hole cave is less than 100,000 years old and has a high chamber with a collapsed roof which creates the large glory hole. It is one of around sixty caves in the area, four of which are open to the public.

Glory Hole Cave map

Glory Hole Cave
(NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service)
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SOILY BOTTOM POINT, New South Wales

Soily Bottom Point is located at the end of Moons Avenue in Lugarno, not far from Punchbowl, south-west of Sydney. Lugarno was named after Lugano in Switzerland but the origin of the Soily Bottom Point name is unclear. It's probably something boring about the bottom of the river being muddy rather than any interesting story about someone having an accident in their pants. A ferry used to run from Soily Bottom Point and nearby Tom's Ugly Point.
Other classic placenames in the vicinity include Boggywell Creek, Jew Fish Point, Bottle And Glass Head, Bald Face Point and Shag Point.


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MURDERING HUT CREEK, Wongwibinda, New South Wales & Rutherglen, Victoria

There are at least three Murdering Hut Creeks including one in Wongwibinda in New South Wales and one over the border in Rutherglen in Victoria.
As for the one in Rutherglen, a story found on Google describes a farmer named Roger Moore who killed his family with a machete and later shot himself. People say that you can now see his ghost when you cross the creek in the late afternoon. Hmmm, that seems bogus. This seems to be the real story:
In 1850 an argument at the Black Dog Inn between two shepherds (John Morrison and Matthew Madden) from the Ullina Run. Police report states that a fight broke out when returning to their huts and shearing blades used whereby one man John Morrison was mortally wounded and died before the doctor could come from Albury. The man is buried at a farm on the Rutherglen Road and is marked by a plaque. The nearby Creek - Brown's Creek (may also be Blind Creek) was renamed 'The Murdering Hut Creek'. Matthew Madden charged with manslaughter and served 7 years hard labour on the roads.
(Victorian Heritage Database)


Murdering Hut Creek intersects with Doughboy Creek.



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USELESS LOOP, Western Australia

When the French explorer Louis-Henri de Saulces de Freycinet took his long name to this area in 1801, he mistakenly believed that a sandbar was blocking access so he named the place Havre Inutile (Useless Harbour). This beautiful area in Shark Bay is not so useless now though, as it is a major producer of high quality salt. Sorry, but tourists can't visit this beautiful little township of around 130 people - it is fully-owned by the Japanese Mitsui Group, and is basically just a town for the employees and families.




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BANG BANG JUMP UP, Queensland

Smack bang in the middle of a massive, super flat grassland area in Stokes, Queensland, the land suddenly jumps up to form a hill which goes by the name of Bang Bang Jump Up. The nearby Bang Bang Waterhole and Bang Bang Homestead must be where the name comes from. The nearest town is Normanton, over 100km away.


Bonzle
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BOGGY HOLE ACCESS, Northern Territory

How can you access this boggy hole? Dead in the centre of Australia, deep in the outback near Alice Springs, travel by 4WD and you'll find a crossing over Finke River called Boggy Hole Access. Most of the time the Finke River is just a dry river bed but Boggy Hole is a permanent waterhole, a true oasis in the desert.




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