Peculiar Place Names in Australia - Peculiar Place Names

Titwobble Lane

TITWOBBLE LANE, Victoria
Drive out of the old gold-mining town of Wedderburn in Victoria and Twiddy Lane turns into the unpaved Titwobble Lane.
Apparently, the shire engineer was driving down here with his wife who said that the road was so bumpy that it was making her tits wobble, so being such a nice guy, he named it after her.

(from Waymarking.com)

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: 16 March 2018

Dead Goat Soak

DEAD GOAT SOAK, South Australia

Dead Goat Soak is located deep in the beautiful semi-arid Flinders Rangers in South Australia. It's a nice spot for some serious bushwalking and also a significant fossil site. In Australian English, a soak is a waterhole, a place where rainwater collects. Apparently, during a drought a goat died in this soak which made the water undrinkable.

(Google Maps)

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: 28 February 2018

Nar Nar Goon

NAR NAR GOON, Victoria

Nar Nar Goon is a town just out of Packenham, east of Melbourne. The name comes from a lost local word which is thought to mean native bear (koala) or water rat, depending who you ask. Nar Nar Goon is a particularly funny name for Australians because "goon" is a colloquial word meaning cheap wine in a carton and "nar" means "no". So the usual joke goes something like this:
"You bringing stubbies to the party?" (Are you bringing small bottles of beer to the party?)
"Nar Nar Goon" (Oh no. I shall bring a box of cheap wine.)
In fact, Nar Nar Goon is a nice little town famous for the murals painted on its historic buildings and is near the Gumbaya World amusement park.

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: 08 February 2018

Barren Box Swamp

BARREN BOX SWAMP, New South Wales

Because of the dry and infertile bush around here, the original Barren Box Swamp was developed and divided into two sections - 40% is used for water storage and recycling while the rest is a natural wetland which is only full of water after heavy rain or flooding from Mirrool Creek. The area has been classified as an Important Bird Area and is not yet open to the public.
Bizarrely, there is a children's book called Bizi the Musk Duck of Barren Box Swamp based on the success of the develpopment project to save the swamp.

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: 30 January 2018

Hells Gates

HELLS GATES, Valley of Lagoons, Queensland

Damn Hell's Gates! Hells Gates open into Burdekin River in north-eastern Queensland. A feasibility study is now underway to determine if the site should be dammed.
Hells Gates is located in Valley of Lagoons, named by the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt obviously because of all the lagoons in the valley.

(Bonzle)
You can see the nearby curiously named Teds Knob Mine and Mount Fullstop Range.

(Townsville Bulletin)

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: 23 January 2018

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Yankee Doodle Bore

YANKEE DOODLE BORE, Northern Territory

This dandy well can be found in the wild west of the Northern Territory in the Gurindji region, named after the local Gurindji people.
A short pony ride will take you to Kalkarindji, the site of the famous Wave Hill walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji workers at a cattle station in 1966. This landmark land rights event eventually led to a portion of the land being given back to the indigenous people.