Aboriginal Placenames, Naming and re-naming the Australian landscape, Naming and re-naming the Australian landscape

Year

2009

Publisher

ANU Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-92166-608-7

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Last Update

12-Oct-2025

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Description

Around Sydney Harbour (Port Jackson¹) and Botany Bay and the intervening coastline (an area I refer to as coastal Sydney), Aboriginal names were recorded for over 100 places, though names can be linked with any certainty to only 89 locations. For the other names the specific locations to which they belong are presently unknown or unresolved. Some names, such as Bondi, Parramatta and Woolloomooloo, were adopted by the colonists and are still used today, but for many other locations the placenames given by the British colonists persisted.

The lists of Aboriginal placenames included in this paper (Tables 1.1 and 1.2,...