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[pmccarthy]

Went for a local flight near Creswick yesterday. Each white heap is an old waste dump from a gold mine on the Berry Lead.

[Old Koreelah]

2 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Went for a local flight near Creswick yesterday. Each white heap is an old waste dump from a gold mine on the Berry Lead.

Found it!

You Mexicans sure have some unusual place names: Gong Gong, Blowhard, Smokeytown, Weatherboard, Bung Bong…

 

[facthunter]

Mexico is CLOSE to the Equator and hotter therefore. I don't have to tell you Victoria is not a lot like Mexico.  Nev

[skippydiesel]

"South of the Boarder, Down Mexico Way"

[facthunter]

Really ONLY applies in places like TEXAS, doesn't it ?  This is too silly to debate.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

The area was settled in the early 1850s. So we have quite a few places named after battles and people from the Crimean war headlines. Such as

Sebastopol, Inkerman, Redan, Alma, Balaclava, Malakoff. 

[facthunter]

Paris is in Texas.  Nev

[sfGnome]

One of the things that we found when we lived in Europe was how many of their places are named after Australian towns… 😛

[pmccarthy]

Melbourne is in Florida

[skippydiesel]

46 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Really ONLY applies in places like TEXAS, doesn't it ?  This is too silly to debate.  Nev

Not a debate - just saying ,how Mexicans (sorry Victorians) got their monica

[turboplanner]

54 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

"South of the Boarder, Down Mexico Way"

What’s the Boarder’s name?

[skippydiesel]

What gets me is when the Septic Tanks say place names like "London, England" "Paris , France"  "Rome , Italy" etc - these places do not require a geographic location. Different story if its London, Ontario, Gloster, NSW etc or other later adopters of a famous place name.

Edited August 9, 2023 by skippydiesel

[facthunter]

Sheesh.... Gloucester NSW...  Cardiff is a suburb of Newcastle NSW. Toronto is not far away..  Nev.

[onetrack]

I enjoy all the "character" and original Australian place names. It's depressing to find so many old Australian place names were simply the result of naming places after similar-looking places in the Old World. A lot of these early immigrants must have been pretty homesick. I'm amazed at the number of place names that fall into this category, I still keep finding them!

 

But names like Mt Nameless, Lake DIsappointment, Egg and Bacon Bay, Starvation Bay, Candlelight, Point Torment, Useless Loop, etc, all represent a bit of Australian initiative in naming.

 

https://www.winetraveler.com/australia/funny-town-place-names-in-australia/

[facthunter]

Look at the lack of Imagination in the naming of the States to start with. Maybe Tasmania is not as bad as the others. Nev

[skippydiesel]

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

I enjoy all the "character" and original Australian place names. It's depressing to find so many old Australian place names were simply the result of naming places after similar-looking places in the Old World. A lot of these early immigrants must have been pretty homesick. I'm amazed at the number of place names that fall into this category, I still keep finding them!

 

But names like Mt Nameless, Lake DIsappointment, Egg and Bacon Bay, Starvation Bay, Candlelight, Point Torment, Useless Loop, etc, all represent a bit of Australian initiative in naming.

 

https://www.winetraveler.com/australia/funny-town-place-names-in-australia/

Believe me when I say that, "naming places after similar-looking places in the Old World". is not the case.

 

In my youth, I spent a little time in the Cotswolds - Gloucester (in Gloucestershire) bears no resemblancea t all, to Gloucester in NSW, same goes for Cardiff/Newcastle (although both are by the sea) etc etc and I suspect this "rule" pretty much applies for most if not all.

 

The white man tried to turn Australia into a version of Britten - importing place names, animals and plants

[BrendAn]

6 hours ago, sfGnome said:

One of the things that we found when we lived in Europe was how many of their places are named after Australian towns… 😛

Yes. The poms copied a lot of our town names.😁

[BrendAn]

I live in Stratford on Avon. English copied that to.

[Marty_d]

6 hours ago, facthunter said:

 Maybe Tasmania is not as bad as the others. Nev

So true

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, BrendAn said:

I live in Stratford on Avon. English copied that to.

Don't write plays, do you?

[BrendAn]

Just now, Marty_d said:

Don't write plays, do you?

😁. no, but they have shakespeare statues everywhere and a festival each year.

     

[red750]

Here's a couple of goodies in Northern Tasmania...

 

[onetrack]

Hallelujah! So Tasmania really is the Promised Land? No wonder Marty's been keeping quiet about it!

[Marty_d]

No! No it's not. And we're full.

[Bernie]

6 hours ago, Marty_d said:

No! No it's not. And we're full.

We have been to Tassie 5 time's still haven't seen the place, so much so that I have a Tassie driving license...and have been to Nowhere else and the promised land...there is a place near Bundaberg also called Promised Land .

Bernie.