pmccarthy Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Went for a local flight near Creswick yesterday. Each white heap is an old waste dump from a gold mine on the Berry Lead. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 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… 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Mexico is CLOSE to the Equator and hotter therefore. I don't have to tell you Victoria is not a lot like Mexico. Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippydiesel Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 "South of the Boarder, Down Mexico Way" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Really ONLY applies in places like TEXAS, doesn't it ? This is too silly to debate. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Paris is in Texas. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfGnome Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 One of the things that we found when we lived in Europe was how many of their places are named after Australian towns… 😛 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Melbourne is in Florida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippydiesel Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 54 minutes ago, skippydiesel said: "South of the Boarder, Down Mexico Way" What’s the Boarder’s name? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippydiesel Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 (edited) 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 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Sheesh.... Gloucester NSW... Cardiff is a suburb of Newcastle NSW. Toronto is not far away.. Nev. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippydiesel Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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.😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 I live in Stratford on Avon. English copied that to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 6 hours ago, facthunter said: Maybe Tasmania is not as bad as the others. Nev So true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 1 hour ago, BrendAn said: I live in Stratford on Avon. English copied that to. Don't write plays, do you? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Just now, Marty_d said: Don't write plays, do you? 😁. no, but they have shakespeare statues everywhere and a festival each year. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Here's a couple of goodies in Northern Tasmania... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Hallelujah! So Tasmania really is the Promised Land? No wonder Marty's been keeping quiet about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 No! No it's not. And we're full. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernie Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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