JUNE 2018
Newsletter of the Australian National Placenames Survey an initiative of the Australian Academy of Humanities, supported by the Geographical Names Board of NSW
How Mt Evelyn was named Mount Evelyn is 37km east of Melbourne in the local known in his lifetime as the author of a treatise on government area of Yarra Ranges. Variously described forestry, Sylva (1664). Another distinguished family as a ‘locality’, a ‘township’ or ‘a suburb of Melbourne’, it member was William John Evelyn (1822-1908), MP for developed around the highest railway station on the Lilydale Surrey West 1849-1857 and for Deptford 1885-1888. to Warburton line. The station name was changed twice, William Evelyn was a poet, linguist, ‘devoted student of from Olinda Vale, to Evelyn, to Mount Evelyn. To trace the nature’, and ‘a truly honest man such as it does one good most probable explanation of the name, we need to start to see’.2 with the Evelyn family. The County of Evelyn Governor Fitz Roy of New South Wales proclaimed 31 counties in the Port Phillip District, including the County of Evelyn, in January 1849.3 The origins of the county names were not given, but most were the names or titles of British parliamentarians. Saxby states that Evelyn was named after ‘William J. Evelyn, MP for Surrey West 1849-1857’.4
This is a little misleading, as William Evelyn was not elected to Parliament until September 1849, eight Mount Evelyn station (photo: Eddie Tichelaar - shared to months after the county was proclaimed. The Evelyn Mt Evelyn Community Life Facebook page) family, however, had contributed at least seven MPs to The ancient family of Evelyn the British Parliament over two centuries. As William The family of Evelyn is traditionally descended from the John Evelyn was head of the family at the time the French family of Evelin. This family took a prominent part in county was proclaimed, we can reasonably say it was the Crusades, and in fact took its name from Ibelin [Yavne], named after him. a locality in Palestine lying between Joppa and Ascalon. A continued page 3 ‘French Herauld’s Book’ was brought over to England in 1650 by John Evelyn... It relates that a member of the family went to the Holy Land with Robert, Duke of Normandy, and became possessed of Baruth [Beirut], a seaport. It also states that the This is our Evelins intermarried with the royal families of Jerusalem and LAST PRINT ISSUE Cyprus.1 From September, we go digital-only - John Evelyn (1620-1706), referred to above, was the see inside for details! famous diarist and Fellow of the Royal Society, best
In this issue: How Mt Evelyn was named – 1 • Berowra – 4 • Revisited: Is it -y or -ey? – 7 • Placenames and compass points – 9 • Ulimaroa revisited – 10 • Kalamunda and Karinya – 11 • Puzzle No. 66 – 11 From the Editor Time passes, and the times of the Board, Michael Van Den Bos, and to those who change. The particular change preceded him, Kevin Richards and Greg Windsor; I have in mind is our move and to Surveyor General Narelle Underwood and her to digital-only publication of predecessors in the chair of the GNB, particularly Placenames Australia. For the last Paul Harcombe. 10 years the Geographical Names We are, of course, continuing our e-publication of Board of NSW has generously Placenames Australia-and those of you who already supported the printing and postage of this quarterly receive it electronically will not notice any difference! I newsletter and, although that cost has now proved to trust you’ll enjoy this June issue and those that follow be prohibitive, we are grateful for that support and it in years to come. collaboration over the last decade. David Blair I’d like to express my thanks to the current Secretary
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2 Placenames Australia • June 2018 ...How Mt Evelyn was named ...from page 1 Olinda Creek and Olinda Vale rejected. Councillors visited the Commissioner with The creek now called Olinda was formerly Running further suggestions. LILYDALE SHIRE COUNCIL Cr Rouget reported that Creek. In 1859 Deputy Surveyor-General Clement Cr Wallace and himself had waited upon the Commissioner Hodgkinson ordered surveyor John Hardy to lay out a of Railways for the purpose of ascertaining the objection to township beside the Running Creek. Hodgkinson and the name Wandin South being substituted for Olinda Vale. The Commissioner said one Wandin station was sufficient, his wife visited the survey camp in 1860. Lilydale was but he would be pleased if they [would] suggest another named on this occasion and Running Creek was re- name that might be acceptable to the department. They then named after Hodgkinson’s daughter, Alice Olinda. ‘At mentioned Evelyn as a name appropriate to the district. The Commissioner approved of the suggestion.10 the same time the Running Creek was named Olinda (my step-daughter’s second name, “Oh finest”)’, wrote As no explanation was deemed necessary, ‘a name Mrs Hodgkinson.6 appropriate to the district’ almost certainly referred to the County of Evelyn. Olinda Vale station was renamed By 1888 the name Olinda Vale was in use for the Olinda Evelyn on 2 December 1907. Creek valley 2-5 miles south of Lilydale.7 An often-repeated claim that Evelyn was named after The station and the name change Evelyn Heales,11 daughter of Richard Heales, Premier of When the Lilydale to Warburton Railway opened on 13 Victoria 1860-1861, can be discounted. Premier Heales November 1901, the first station was called Olinda Vale. did not have a daughter named Evelyn.12 The station served not only the immediate area but also the district then called South Wandin (part of the Parish Putting the Mount in Mount Evelyn of Wandin Yallock, now Silvan and the The Evelyn Progress Association south eastern end of Mt Evelyn). formed in 1909. Keen to promote the town’s attractions to visitors, The name Olinda Vale caused the Association campaigned to have annoyance to residents of Olinda on ‘Mount’ added to the name. Mt Dandenong. As the name ‘Evelyn’ does not convey any OLINDA Friday:- The people of of the beauties and natural advantages this township suffer a great deal of of this place as a tourist resort, it was inconvenience through the Railway decided to ask the authorities to alter the department having taken the name of the nomenclature to Mount Evelyn.13 town, with ‘vale’ added to it and having given this name to a railway station. That The Post Office had opened in 1904 railway station is 13 miles away and is on another line than that which supplies under the name Valinda. After the the township of Olinda, distant 6½ miles station became Evelyn, the Post from the railway. Goods from the city Office name also was changed to addressed to Olinda are very often sent to Evelyn, on 10 April 1908. The Post Olindavale.8 Office added the prefix ‘Mount’ to 14 South Wandin residents were equally W. J. Evelyn MP - portrait by Havell the name on 26 September 1913. peeved. (1884) The station was renamed Mount SOUTH WANDIN: Goods consigned to Evelyn in April/May 1919. South Wandin are invariably carried to Wandin, although the train officials know full well that Olinda Vale is the only An indirect namesake station used by the South Wandin residents. Either one of two things could remedy the evil, viz., for this district to take the The County of Evelyn was, almost certainly, named for name of the station, or the station to take the name of the the Evelyn family, represented by William John Evelyn 9 district. (later MP). Evelyn Station was, almost certainly, named Olinda Vale residents wanted ‘Valinda’, their Post Office after the county. It seems reasonable, then, to say that name, as the station name; South Wandin people preferred Mount Evelyn was named indirectly after William John ‘South Wandin’, a name the Railways Commissioner Evelyn. continued next page
Placenames Australia • June 2018 3 ...from previous page ...How Mt Evelyn was named Endnotes in the Hodgkinson family. For other explanations for the meaning of ‘Olinda’, see booklet, Karen Phillips 2014, How Mt Evelyn was Named, 1 Helen Evelyn 1915, The History of the Evelyn Family, Everleigh Nash, Mt Evelyn History Group. London, http://archive.org/stream/historyofevelynf00eveluoft #page/ 7 Lilydale Express, 25 February 1888. n7/mode/2up, p.11. 8 The Argus, 10 December 1904. 2 W.S. Blunt, ‘William John Evelyn a Memoir’ in Evelyn, op.cit., pp.266- 9 Healesville & Yarra Glen Guardian, 20 April 1907. 268. 10 Lilydale Express, 1 November 1907. 3 Port Phillip Government Gazette, 17 January 1849. 11 L. Blake 1976, Place names of Victoria, Rigby, Adelaide. 4 J.G. Saxby 1907, Victoria, Place Names and their Origin, Saxton & 12 Buckie, Clifton Hill, p.25. Richard Heales, death certificate 4948, 1864. Heales’ two daughters were Rhoda and Florence. Healesville was named after Premier Heales. 5 ‘History of Parliament’, http://www.historyofparliamentonline. In 13 1849 the most recent MP of the name was Lyndon Evelyn, Member Evelyn Progress Association Annual Report, Healesville & Yarra Glen for St Ives 1820-1826, died 1839. Irish-born Lyndon Evelyn was Guardian, 11 July 1913. apparently unrelated to the English family. http://www.leighrayment. 14 Australia Post Archives. com/commons/Hcommons2.htm. 6 Mrs Annie Hodgkinson, letter to Lilydale Shire Council, Lilydale Express, 14/6/1907. ‘Oh finest’ was evidently the meaning accepted Karen Phillips
Berowra - was it windy or shelly? Energy supply-we know how important it is. We’ve Berowra is a all experienced a power failure at home, when nothing suburb to the works: the lights, the toaster, the microwave, the jug or north of Sydney, anything else electrical. Many of us remember the petrol and its name was strikes in the 1970s and 80s that threw domestic and long said to be ‘an commercial motor fleets into chaos: you were forced Aboriginal word’ to rely on what was left in your tank as the shortages meaning ‘place of dragged on. many winds’. This meaning is still given repeatedly on Uncertainty about available energy has always been with the internet and reported in placenames books such as us, of course. At the time of the First Fleet, the source of Pollon (1996) and Kennedy (2006). In such instances power for sailing ships was wind. A failure of the wind neither the particular language nor the source for such meant that a ship was becalmed. No wonder their minds a claim is provided, although information in the table BB were fixated on wind in those days! And it’s no surprise below (in which in the source column denotes the that those English newcomers to NSW were motivated classical language of Sydney in the First Fleet days), may to enquire of the Indigenous inhabitants about the be the underlying reason. prevailing winds and what names they were given. Recently, however, as in the online Dictionary of Sydney, and more specifically in Wikipedia, a new understanding of Berowra is gaining ground: it actually means ‘place of many shells’ referring to the many shell middens on Berowra Creek.1, 2 It may have been local Hornsby historian Ralph Hawkins who first put forward this suggestion, which was taken up in the
4 Placenames Australia • June 2018 ...Berowra Guide to Berowra Valley Regional Park (p.6). For while near the Harbour entrance and Middle Head. Berowra, Berowra is hardly more windy than anywhere else, it then, means simply ‘shells’ (or ‘fishhooks’), without any certainly does have shell middens in extensive profusion ‘place of’ suffix as part of the name. all along Berowra Creek. And if we check the original Jeremy Steele language records, we find they provide compelling evidence to support this latter-day interpretation.
William Dawes was the most reliable of the Fleet Fleet recorders of the language. In the first two rows in the table (right), Dawes shows that bira meant ‘fishhook’ or ‘shell’. At first sight this dual meaning might seem odd, until it is realised that the Sydney Aboriginals, who Endnotes 1 survived mainly on their catches from the Harbour, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berowra,_New_South_Wales 2 made lures rather than fishhooks by laboriously grinding https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/berowra marine shells into pointed curves, as shown in a display in the visitor centre at Kurnell. References Dictionary of Sydney. http://home.dictionaryofsydney.org/ Finally, ‘Berowra’ is the same as birara, although spelt as Friends of Berowra Valley Regional Park, New South Wales. National Parks & Wildlife Service, & Hornsby Council. (c.2001). Guide to a writer of English might have heard it; the -ra ending Berowra Valley Regional Park. Berowra, NSW: Friends of Berowra or suffix is occasionally used to indicate the plural in Valley Regional Park. the Sydney language; bara is an alternative hearing of Kennedy, Brian & Kennedy, Barbara. (2006). Australian place names. Sydney: ABC Books. bira; and Birra Birra (bira bira–the doubling expresses Pollon, Frances & Healy, Gerald. (1996). The Book of Sydney suburbs / intensity, emphasis or the plural) means ‘shells’, as well compiled by Frances Pollon; original manuscript by Gerald Healy. Sydney: as being the Aboriginal name for the Sow and Pigs Reef Cornstalk / Harper Collins
Notes and queries Surveyor General John Oxley in 1825 assigned James Ralfe to survey the coast area north of Port Stephens. Laurieton, NSW Ralfe had eight convicts to assist him, including one Diane Solomon Westerhuis is researching the Camden James Smith. Ralfe produced a map of the area (1826) Haven area, and is trying to find the origin of which included Smiths Lake. It seems probable, says Laurieton’s previous name, Peach Orchard .We haven’t Alan, that Smith actually discovered the lake on his yet been able to antedate Diane’s earliest record of survey and as he was in favour with Ralfe at the time, 1875. If you can help, email the Editor. Ralfe named the lake after him. Smiths Lake, NSW Kyneton, VIC Last September we asked, on behalf of the Great Lakes Ted Malpas has kindly sent us a copy of Pat Sanders’ Historical Society, for information on how the locality booklet on the naming of Kyneton. It puts to rest of Smiths Lake got its name. The Society has, in the the old story that the town was named after Kineton meantime, been digging away and its treasurer Alan in Warwickshire. The name came from Kington Wright has provided an update for us. (Herefordshire), formerly Kyneton in the Fields.
Placenames Australia • June 2018 5 Signs of our times There seems to be no end of odd road signs, seemingly devised to either amuse or confuse drivers. The ever-vigilant Chris Woods, while searching for Tassie rivulets (Placenames Australia, March 2018, p.8), discovered an apparent spelling discrepancy worth sharing with us:
Placenames Tasmania tells us that the signwriter is not to blame. Mickca Rivulet is the official name, replacing earlier forms ‘Mickies Creek’ and ‘Mickeys Creek’. Micka Rivulet Bridge, despite the existence of the road sign, is unofficial and historical only: it was derived from old road link maps but was never approved.
Ian Greenhalgh has delighted us by discovering a disturbing sequence of direction signs in the lovely NSW town of Binalong. At the intersection of Queen and Manning Streets you’ll find the sequence Catholic Church, Transfer Station, Cemetery. Unfortunately we don’t have a clear photo as proof-but Google Street View provides a rather out-of- focus shot for our edification. In the meantime, our photo (right) of Binalong Station clearly warns of a long wait for prospective passengers.
Placenames in the media New from ANPS Does your street have an unfortunate name? Theoretical toponymy throws up some interesting David Nutting has drawn our attention to a report on questions. One of those has to do with placenames that ABC Radio which tells us that house prices on streets contain two elements, a specific and a generic, each with silly names are significantly lower. Interested? of which refers to the same feature type. We have in Chase it up at mind, for instance, the River Avon: because the specific http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-27/house- element Avon represents modern Welsh afon ‘river’, the prices-lower-on-streets-with-silly-names/9197366 toponym literally means ‘River River’. Star Names Jan Tent and David Blair have proposed the term The International Astronomical Union has assigned 86 ‘macaronic duplex toponym’ for such examples. Their new names for stars in the night sky; four are Aboriginal article ‘A Clash of Names: the Terminological Morass in origin, from the Wardaman language. Find out more of a Toponym Class’ has now been published in the about this at journal Names. It’s available online at https://theconversation.com/the-stories-behind- https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2018.1452907 aboriginal-star-names-now-recognised-by-the-worlds- But we also have a limited number of free e-prints astronomical-body-87617 available: email the Editor if you’d like one.
6 Placenames Australia • June 2018 Revisited... Is it -y or -ey? In a recent issue (September 2017, ‘The regulation of place-naming’) Jan Tent outlined the roles of the various placenaming authorities in Australia and New Zealand. One of their responsibilities is to ensure consistent place-naming and spelling of toponyms. However, as he noted in our March 2018 issue, (‘Which suffix:-y or -ey?’) the variable spelling of Stony vs Stoney and Smoky vs Smokey shows that this is not always achieved. One notable example in the Gazetteer of New Zealand was Smoky Hill and its adjoining Smokey Hill Scenic Reserve. Jan asked our colleague Wendy Shaw (Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board) about the incongruence of those spellings. This is a slightly redacted version of her response.
It’s complicated! I hope this explanation doesn’t confuse under an enactment, whether or not the proposed you more … name— (i) was publicly notified and consulted on; or The hill name is a ‘recorded unofficial name’, meaning (ii) gazetted under, or included in, the enactment. that the New Zealand Geographic Board has not (2) The names referred to in subsection (1) are official considered it before and therefore has not researched geographic names and as valid as if they had been its correct spelling. However, the NZGB needs to list assigned or altered in accordance with this Act. it in the Gazetteer to provide a comprehensive set of (3) The Board must, as soon as is reasonably practicable geographic names across New Zealand. We have just after the commencement of this Act, publish in the over 32,300 recorded unofficial names. The NZGB Act Gazette the official geographic names referred to in subsection (1) that have not previously been gazetted. 2008 provides for a fast track process to approve them as official if certain criteria are met. However, this is currently a slow process!
Yes, reserve names can be named after associated physical landscape features, which is probably the case here. But as you say they have different spellings and the reserve name is official, whereas the hill name is not.
This is because the Department of Conservation (DOC) formerly named all of its reserves prior to the NZGB Act 2008. DOC’s former naming practices were not standardised or regulated, which is partly why the NZGB now has a concurrence role for DOC’s reserve names (see the Standard for CPA naming).1 So in 2001, DOC set aside Smokey Hill Scenic Reserve, with the ‘e’ spelling. I would expect that DOC researched the correct spelling at that point, It would’ve been preferable if DOC had made a formal then accepted official reserve names under section 35 of proposal to the NZGB back in 2001, to have the hill the NZGB Act 2008:2 name corrected (if indeed the correct spelling is Smokey).
35 Validation of certain names So we now have an inconsistency between an official and (1) In relation to actions taken before the unofficial name right next to each other (and obviously commencement of this Act, this section applies to connected), which is not ideal. The question is whether every name— this is a priority for the NZGB to resolve. If someone (a) that the Board has assigned to, or altered for, a geographic feature in Antarctica, whether or not that were to make a formal proposal to the NZGB, then name has been gazetted; and we would process it. But with other work priorities, it’s (b) assigned to, or altered for, a Crown protected area unlikely that we would make a formal proposal ourselves. continued next page
Placenames Australia • June 2018 7 ...from previous page -y or -ey? A Cook anniversary As to the official Government publication which you A walk to Little Rame Head 3 mentioned, Holland (2011) , it is compelled to use The twenty sixth of August 2018 is the 250th anniversary the official name, Smokey Hill Scenic Reserve. This is of James Cook’s departure from Plymouth. a requirement of section 32 of the NZGB Act 2008. Non-compliance can result in heavy measures as set out On that day he passed Ram Head, Cornwall (now spelt in Section 32 of the Act. The definition of an official Rame Head), and to mark the anniversary the Restoring document is under section 4 of the NZGB Act 2008. Cook’s Legacy 2020 team is organising a weekend event on 25/26 August at Mallacoota, Victoria. This will I trust this lengthy response sheds some light! include a talk, ‘Lt James Cook on the coast of Victoria Endnotes 1770-a comedy of errors’, and a walk to Little Rame Head. All are invited and would be warmly welcomed: 1
Luise Hercus am faha Mentor and friend to many Her many friends and colleagues will be sad to hear that Luise Hercus died recently, at the age of 92.
There is not space enough here to properly acknowledge Luise’s outstanding contribution to Australian linguistics. Suffice to say that, from 1962 to her death she worked unceasingly on salvage work in Aboriginal Luise (right), with Bill Watt and Flavia Hodges, at the languages, studying languages that were on the brink ANPS Canberra Workshop, 2012 of extinction. In recent years she was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, School of Language Her expertise in these languages has been, on many Studies, ANU, writing up grammars, dictionaries and occasions, invaluable (and willingly offered) to the traditional texts, and continuing fieldwork mainly in Australian National Placenames Survey. Our debt to the north of South Australia and adjacent areas of New her is great-we will all miss her generous gifts of mind South Wales and Queensland. and spirit.
8 Placenames Australia • June 2018 Placenames and compass points: Questions There’s no end of placenames that contain a cardinal compass point (CCP) (i.e. North, South, East or West). The use of intercardinal (or ordinal) points (e.g. North-East) is not nearly as common (e.g. South West Rocks), probably because it convolutes the name- An example might bring the issue into focus and help so I’ll not include them in this discussion. produce a potential answer. The local public school in North Epping bears the official name Epping North Interestingly, the position that the CCP takes in the Public School. Why is this? There is also an Epping Public North Epping toponym is not fixed. The Sydney suburb School and an Epping West Public School, but no West pre Denistone has its CCP as a modifier while in nearby Epping suburb. We’ve already seen that premodifying East post it is a modifier. CCPs are the prevailing pattern in the general toponymy, CCP toponyms aren’t all and that postmodifiers are that common-a mere 2% of very much in the minority. the approximately 370,000 However, if we search toponyms registered in particularly for the names the National Gazetteer of of schools we discover that Australia contain a CCP. Of the general pattern does all the CCP toponyms in not hold. The gazetteers Australia 68% of them have of NSW and Victoria a premodifying compass provided the opportunity point (and 32%, of course, to search on school take a postmodifying names-and I discovered compass point). This means that 83.4% of schools in that, of all the toponyms NSW had a postmodifying in Australia, only 1.4% CCP (leaving 15.6% with have a premodifying compass point and those with a a premodifying CCP). A similar picture emerges in postmodifying CCP comprise a mere 0.6%.1 Victoria with 86% of schools having a postmodifying CCP. Why would it be so? In these counts I did not include solid (form) compound I’ll give my proposed answers to all these questions in toponyms such as Eastwood. The reason is that you the September issue of the Placenames Australia. Do you would never get a *Woodeast or *Wood East. I am only have any theories to offer in the meantime? Send them dealing with open (form) complex toponyms such as to the Editor and we’ll acknowledge the best next time! West Wyalong and Footscray West (see Tent 2016). This, naturally, raises the question as to why some CCP toponyms are solid compounds while others are open Jan Tent complex. Endnote I’ll propose an answer to this in the next issue of 1 In New Zealand, the proportion of CCPs is even lower: of the 51,000 Placenames Australia. In the meantime, let’s return to toponyms in the Gazetteer of New Zealand, a mere 0.9% (or 469) have the issue of premodifying vs postmodifying CCPs in a CCP. And in contrast to the Australian pattern, very few of them open (form) complex toponyms. Are there any types (only11) have a postmodifying CCP. of toponyms that tend to have a premodifying CCP Reference structure as opposed to a postmodifying CCP structure? Tent, Jan (2016). ‘Toponymy 101 B: The structure of toponyms’. And what, if anything, does a postmodifying CCP Placenames Australia. March, pp. 6-7.
Placenames Australia • June 2018 9 Ulimaroa revisited In 2010 Paul Geraghty and I wrote a piece for Placenames Wärldsdel; då man finner skickligare.’ [Why should Australia entitled ‘Two unusual names for the Australian we copy European names for countries in other parts continent. Part II’ in which we discussed Ulimaroa, the of the world if we can find better/more appropriate name given to the Australian continent by the Swedish names?] geographer and cartographer, Daniel Djurberg. In that Pär comments that Djurberg simply objected to the article Paul and I traced the origin of this name, and concept of giving European names to places in other subsequently published a fuller account in the Journal continents. ‘Quite a modern view I would think, expressed of Pacific History. 200 years ago.’ I couldn’t agree more. Nevertheless, In recent times I have been contacted by Pär Ahlberger, Djurberg’s choice of Ulimaroa is ill-conceived for reasons the Ambassador of Sweden to the Pacific region. Pär Paul and I outline in our published articles. has an interest in history and finds the story behind Ulimaroa intriguing. He has one of Djurberg’s original maps at his residence in Canberra, and intends writing an article on the name for Sverigekontakt, the magazine of The Royal Society for Swedish Culture Abroad.
Pär has an electronic copy of a small booklet (published in 1800) of annotations and thoughts by Djurberg on his school atlas, which comments on the European habits of naming newly discovered lands. Pär has kindly paraphrased and summarised for me what Djurberg writes in this commentary. Acknowledgement Firstly, Djurberg found a reference to the name Ulimaroa I should wholeheartedly like to thank Pär Ahlberger for and preferred it over New Holland (remember that the getting in touch with me and sharing this information. name Australia had not been bestowed on the continent It fills in a few more small holes in our knowledge of the at that time) for three main reasons: origin of the name Ulimaroa. 1. The respective topographies of Holland in Europe (flat, with regular flooding) and New Holland have no similarities. Why then name the new continent Jan Tent New Holland? References 2. Furthermore, New Holland as a continent is Djurberg, Daniel (1800). Underrättelse Um en päbegynt Skole-Atlas för not newer or younger than European Holland in a Ungdomen i Riket. Stockholm: Joh. Christ. Holmberg. geographical sense. Most likely it is older. Why then Geraghty, Paul & Jan Tent (2010). ‘Two unusual names for the Australian continent. Part II’. Placenames Australia. June, p. 4-7.
10 Placenames Australia • June 2018 Kalamunda and Karinya David Nash has given us two useful updates on placenames we’ve been writing about.
Jeremy Steele speculated on an origin for Kalamunda David has gone one better! He reports: (September 2017), wondering why there was no record This can be antedated to Carinya ‘A happy, peaceful of that word in Nyungar even though the two elements home’ in Endacott 1923, 1944, and that in turn were documented. David’s answer is that the name was probably came from Carin’ya ‘Happy home’ in Lachlan R., ‘Weri-ari coined in 1901 by local residents, who found cala and Tribe, Nr. Hillston: Aboriginal Words and Meanings’ munda in a book on Aboriginal language by Bishop Science of Man Jan. 23, 1902, p.205 Salvado and suggested ‘home in the bush’ as a good That is a significant antedating, we reckon-from 1950 to meaning for the locality. 1923 to 1902!
And then there’s the never-ending story of Karinya or David’s mention of Endacott, by the way, is to Sydney Carinya. In our March 2018 issue, we said this: J Endacott, Australian Aboriginal native words and their Many moons ago (December 2007!) we were asked meanings, originally self-published in 1923 and 1925; it about Karinya/Carinya, a common house name then appeared in several updated editions with the title believed to be of Aboriginal origin. Chris Woods Australian Aboriginal words and place names and their (who obviously never gives up) has tracked it down to meanings. We are aware of editions from 1944, 1955, the 1950 edition of McCarthy’s NSW Aboriginal Place Names, which listed it as meaning ‘peaceful home’. 1965, 1973 and 1990-but there may well be others.
Placenames Puzzle Number 66
Pessimistic toponyms The clues for this puzzle conceal the names of places that have pessimistic or negative names as their specific elements. The clues are synonyms of the actual name; e.g. (SA) Nervous/fretful bay: ...Anxious Bay
1. (QLD) Big bungle/slipup creek 2. (SA) Calamitous/tragic cape 3. (TAS) Uninviting/forbidding cape 14. (VIC) Awful/ 4. (SA) Bereavement/demise rock horrible 5. (QLD) Trickery/ruse bay hollow 6. (VIC) Mount hopelessness/despondency 15. (SA) Port 7. (WA) Lake disillusionment/dissatisfaction gloom/ Item 7 8. (SA) Miserable/depressing plains wretchedness 9. (SA) Mount disheartened/despairing 16. (QLD) Cape ordeal/misfortune 10. (NT) Mount repentance/remorse 17. (SA) Kaput/ruined beach 11. (WA) Point irritation/annoyance 18. (WA) Frantic/despairing bay 12. (TAS) Rebuff/repel river 19. (QLD) Danger/peril bay 13. (WA) Unserviceable/ 20. (TAS) Self-destruction bay
inoperable inlet [Compiled by: Jan Tent]
Suicide Bay Suicide 20. 15. Port Misery Port 15. 10. Mount Regret Mount 10. 5. Deception Bay Deception 5.
Hazard Bay Hazard 19. 14. Terrible Hollow Terrible 14. 9. Mount Hopeless Mount 9. 4. Death Rock Death 4.
Desperate Bay Desperate 18. 13. Useless Inlet Useless 13. 8. Dismal Plains Dismal 8. 3. Cape Grim Cape 3.
Cactus Beach Cactus 17. 12. Repulse River Repulse 12. 7. Lake Disappointment Lake 7. 2. Cape Catastrophe Cape 2.
Cape Tribulation Cape 16. 11. Point Torment Point 11. 6. Mount Despair Mount 6. 1. Blunder Creek Blunder 1.
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