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Australian governments have officially named many places, particularly suburbs, after Aboriginal people or language groups, such as Aranda or Tullamarine. The place name has always been called thus by Aboriginal people, and Aboriginal people still live in the area.
Place names chart: A chart of place names for the Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney, including current place names, references and historical names and descriptions "The Aboriginal names of rivers in Australia philologically examined."
24 sty 2024 · Meanjin is a placename that refers to a spearhead shape in the Brisbane River on Yaggera and Turrbal Country. Funnily enough, ‘Brisbane’ also refers to Brisbane River, which is named after Sir...
A chart of place names for the Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney section, including current place names, references and historical names and descriptions.
Hidden away in a notebook held in the State Library of NSW 's Mitchell Library is a remarkable document: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal names for places along Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, which encircles Sydney and the Cumberland Plain on the east coast of New South Wales.
The Gumbaynggirr name for the Bellinger River is Bindaray Yurruun. Regarding the inclusion of the “ng” in the English spelling of “Bellingen” – Hodgkinson’s own Aboriginal companions were Dhanggati men, who spoke a different language, although they could apparently converse with the Gumbaynggirr.
In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie.