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Mangalore Poowong Tittybong and Mount Buggery. Earlier name Named or part of another suburb as of 1993 update.
But we have to return to South Australia for this countrys longest official place name.
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Originally surveyed as Crete-Watta but later changed to honour Governor MacDonnell whose name can be found in place names across South Australia. Port Neill After AS. South Gippsland Victoria Where is it.
95 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Howd it get the name. Theres quite a bit of conjecture about the origins of Poowongs smirk-inducing name but the consensus around town is that in the local Indigenous language it meant six-foot long worm although some say it also meant dead animals.
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Earlier name Named or part of another suburb as of 1993 update. Mangalore Poowong Tittybong and Mount Buggery. But we have to return to South Australia for this countrys longest official place name.
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