The Funniest Town Names In Australia 1. Dinkum Mate Well It Wasnt There Last Year Cave Humpty Doo he said.
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Funny names of places australia. The Funniest Town Names In Australia 1. Funny Tasmanian Town Names Tassie may lay at the bottom of Australia but surely thats not the reason for their obsession with naming towns creeks and mountains from the bottom up. They have Long Bottom Broad Bottom Officers Bottom Bottom Fancy Grassy Bottom Bottom Hole Round Bottom Stumpys Bottom Bottom Lagoon Lovely Bottom and the Butts.
A list of some of the bizarre unusual and funny Australian city and place names. QLD - Google Map Located south of Rockhampton its well known for. NSW is also home to such notable places as Burrumbuttock Delicate Nobby Tom Ugly Mount Great Groaner Flirtation Hill and Boozer Creek.
Ive been everywhere man. Ive been to Wollongong Geelong Kurrajong Mullumbimby Mittagong Molong Grong Grong Goondiwindi Cabramatta Parramatta Wangaratta Coolangatta. Whats it matter Luckily for us Scott found a few more and even went to the effort of delving into the background of these weird and wacky Australian names for NineMSN s travel channel.
Sometimes politically incorrect always hilarious our country really is chockas with weird and funny place names. The Marvellous Map of Actual Australian Place Names is a large wall map identifying and locating over 1000 of the funniest rudest and quirkiest Aussie towns streets mountains lakes and all manner of geographic features. Strange Australian places.
The town of Cowaramup in WA is strange but it doesnt quite make this list Ive spent a fair amount of time travelling around Australia whether locally or in other states whilst on holiday and its fair to say that Australia has some very strange place names. Humphrey Butler the founder of the company told the BBC that Tasmania in particular seemed to feature quite a lot with places such as Toungers Point Deep Thought Crack Pot Stinkhole Misery Knob Eggs and Bacon Bay Prickly Bottom and Crocodile Rock all getting a look in. The Knob Quality Knobs Pinnacle Knob Scrubby Knob or Iron Knob take your pick Queensland.
Peculiar Knob Cream Puff Corner and Fanny are some of the places found in South Australia Other parts of Australia are home to equally hilarious names including Peculiar Knob in South Australia. Tasmania is home to a number of outrageous place names like Lovely Bottom Pisspot Creek Prickly Bottom Guys Dirty Hole and Ding Dong Rainforest. Other parts of Australia.
Not only for its beautiful nature and scenery but also for its hilarious and cheeky place names that are scattered throughout the country. Funny Place Names Road Trip. As if there werent already enough options out there to inspire a themed road trip in Australia beaches the big things etc you can now take it upon yourself to try and reach as many of these funny named places.
US and Britain are also world class but what makes Aussie place names so good is that some of them are just very Australian. Dinkum Mate Well It Wasnt There Last Year Cave Humpty Doo he said. And yes they are genuine place names hence the map is called Actual Australian Place Names.
If you doubt it head to Geoscience Australias Place Names Search here. One might notice that Muffs awesomely close to Burnfoot despite being eons beyond it in the schema of funny city names. If you do hit the northern Ireland port city youll be.
The Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk a 600-metre-long steel walkway 40 metres above the forest floor is one of the must-see attractions in WAs south-west. If you dont have a head for heights the Ancient Empire Walk at ground level winds through a grove of 400-year-old tingle trees. You wont believe these wacky and funny town names are realbut theyre all places you can actually visit in America.
Read on to find out what they are. The Australian state with the weirdest place names. Queensland becomes the second hottest destination for startups in the country.
Queensland seems to be on a different wavelength with its rude and funny place names. The sunshine state is in no short supply of hilariously named creeks low mountains towns and well knobs. Located just a hop step and a jump from Dubbo Cumbooglecumbang is a testament to great Aussie place names.
Known mostly for its name this locality is probably one to check out if youre visiting the Western Plains Zoo. Its about five hours out of Sydney.