Thread: Interesting place names

Here's one in Austria, that may or may not get past Admin as it's both the name of a place, and a rude word. :eek:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp

Nowhere Else in WA sounds exciting and I think that there is a Somewhere Else and Nowhere in Tassie.

How about "Who'ed Thought It" Lookout in Quirindi NSW

In WA we have Coolyanobbing and Whyalkatchem in the Goldfields and Mandogalup (frequently mispronounced Manupadog) near Fremantle.

Originally Posted by scooter

Careful, this could gestate a Place Name Nazi (PNN) !

My brother lived briefly at Waaia (pron. way-aye)

Seems we all ready have a PNN.

I live near Waaia. And Bearii and Wunghnu (One ewe) We have all the great unpronouceables up here. And matching names just to confuse. Cobram and Kyabram. Barmah and Barham. Yarrawonga and Yarroweyah.

Dan

I was up at Dans end of the world today and saw, Katamatite, and Koonoomoo, and the Italian word for thank you, Muckatah.


Al

Just down the hill from me there's Yorkey's Knob . There's a multimillion dollar resort development starting there and in the advertising they're calling the area "Yorkey's Beach" :mad: There's also a spot on the range road called "Sackley's Knob". Got a friend near Kempsey, lives down Dongdingalong road, Dongdingalong (sp?)

Mick

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

Just down the hill from me there's Yorkey's Knob . There's a multimillion dollar resort development starting there and in the advertising they're calling the area "Yorkey's Beach"

Mick, I always liked the T-shirt on the barman at the marina. Its said;

Yorkey's Knob
Bigger than
Mobey's Dick

Those where the days, when I could go to the pub (BK)

Cheers

I do have a photo somewhere, but cannot get my hands on it immediately. Its a shop in Knockin, actually called "THE KNOCKIN SHOP"

Tony.

Originally Posted by ozwinner

I was up at Dans end of the world today ... Katamatite, and Koonoomoo

Forgot Katandra, Katunga and Congupna.

And leave my end out of this :eek:

Dan

Whakaue Street Rotarua - pronounced fuk-uh-wey. Where the .... are we? Get it?

I once drove through a town called "Wank" (pronounce vank) in southern Germany. No photo unfortunately - too cold to get my telescopic lens out.

there is a place in the uk called "lost". their sign post keeps getting stolen.

In Melbourne's South East Suburbs there is "High Street Road". It seems that someone in the past couldn't make up their minds whether it should be Street or Road so they used both.

There is also Ernst Wank road somewhere out that way as well.