Funny Place Names In Australia

It was tagged Havre Inutile loosely meaning unusable harbour in 1801 by French navigator Louis-Henri de Saulces de Freycinet. Now youve done it.

Australia S Funniest Place Names

Given that our heritage is the convict class it is no wonder that Australians still have an irreverence for the polite things of society - such as nice namesOver this wide land there are knobs.

Funny place names in australia. Actually it was settled by homesteaders from Quebec and named. Shark Bay Western Australia Where is it. The most law abiding town in Alberta with 1345 legal residents.

Queensland seems to be on a different wavelength with its rude and funny place names. The people who named places in Australia often did not skirt around crudeness or vulgarity and were all the better for it. Massachusetts South Georgia Tasmania Western Australia Shagnasty Island an island lying in Clowes Bay Shamrock Texas.

Dont go getting any ideas. Northern Territory The boxing crocodile in Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory. The town of Cowaramup in WA is strange but it doesnt quite make this list.

Instead the Gunbarrel Highway got her name from the chief surveyor Len Beadell who liked to draw as many double straight lines as possible to maximize fuel efficiency and joked that his team would be called the Gunbarrel Construction Company The name stuck. NSW is also home to such notable places as Burrumbuttock Delicate Nobby Tom Ugly Mount Great Groaner Flirtation Hill and Boozer Creek. Never has Australias love of a punt been so obvious.

Shag Rocks four places with these names. Not only for its beautiful nature and scenery but also for its hilarious and cheeky place names that are scattered throughout the country. Located south of Rockhampton its well known for its beef cattle but no bananas as far as the eye can see.

Poowong happens to be the unfortunate place name for a small town of around 600 in the South Gippsland Shire of Victoria. A song about the hilarious colourful and ridiculous place names that can be found across Australia. Queensland becomes the second hottest destination for startups in the country.

The sunshine state is in no short supply of hilariously named creeks low mountains towns and well knobs. A 440-kilometre drive north of Geraldton. Marvel Loch is a small outback-dwelling town located.

Just 20 minutes from Devonport the town. Other parts of Australia are home to equally hilarious names including Peculiar Knob in South Australia Big Knob Waterhole in Northern Territory and The Boobs in NSW. Here is a rough map of Australias most entertainingly named places.

Wiggle Belly Beach. An unincorporated community in West Virginia full of southpaws. Nowhere Else is the unique place name for a town in Tasmania that surprisingly has just about nothing there.

Possibly the most uncomfortable place name in Newfoundland. Australian Lists Place Names. Howd it get the name.

Unfortunately lederhosen do not come from here. QLD - Google Map. The Australian state with the weirdest place names.

Strange Australian places. 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. It is located around 111 kilometers from Melbourne and has no real claim to fame besides the funny name.

He described it as a very pretty small harbour but which unfortunately being closed in by a sandbank on which there is not more than three feet 90. A list of some of the bizarre unusual and funny Australian city and place names.

A Map Of Australia S Funniest Place Names