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The town's name Katoomba reputedly comes from a local aboriginal word 'godoomba' meaning 'water tumbling over a hill.
The Daintree Rainforest was named after the nineteenth-century Australian geologist and photographer, Richard Daintree.
The English name is 'Ayers Rock'. The Aboriginal name is 'Uluru'.
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the Daintree Beach!=)
yes, Flinders Medical Centre is named after Matthew Flinders, because it is in fact that it is true, also because he visited Australia in Adelaid (i don't think it was named that in aboriginal times) and visited the aboriginal but he died (he died in Australia) so his name was put for our hospitals name (Flinders Medical Centre is very popular)
i think the name for aboriginal Queensland is gaurna
The Daintree Rainforest is on the continent of Australia.
The Daintree Rainforest is the largest rainforest in Australia, covering an area of about 1,200 square kilometres.The Daintree Rainforest was added to the World Heritage List in 1988.About 30% of Australia's reptile, marsupial and frog species, 65% of the country's bat and butterfly species, and 20% of Australia's native bird species can be found within the Daintree.It is located north of Cairns in far north Queensland.The Daintree Rainforest was named after the nineteenth-century Australian geologist and photographer, Richard Daintree.
The name "kookaburra" is derived from the similar sounding word "gugubarra" given by the aboriginal tribal group, the Wiradjuri people, of New South Wales. They named it for the laughing sound it makes when warning other birds of its territorial boundaries.
Hi I grew up in a village named Mandaumin, and my grandfather told me that the name was the local Aboriginal word for corn. Thanks, Randal
Richard Daintree was born in 1832.