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Banana - State: QLD - Google Map
Located south of Rockhampton it's well known for it's beef cattle but no bananas as far as the eye can see!
Binnaway - State: NSW - Google Map
I bet no one forgets to!
Boing Boing - State: NT - Google Map
Meaning "mosquitoes buzzing" in Aboriginal
Bong Bong - State: NSW - Google Map
An Aboriginal phrase meaning 'Out of Sight'
Boyland - State: QLD - Google Map
Popular place with teenage girls and it's where all the boy bands are manufactured, no really.
Broke - State: NSW - Google Map
A wine growing region in the Hunter Valley.
Burpengary - State: QLD - Google Map
Meaning the 'place of the wattle trees', apparently not named after some guy called Gary with exessive stomach gas.
Burrumbuttock - State: NSW - Google Map
According to locals Burrumbuttock means 'bullock's backbone'
Chinaman's Knob - State: VIC - Google Map
Name of a hill in Victoria
Chinkapook - State: VIC - Google Map
Means 'waterhole'
Christmas Island - State: - Google Map
Home of Australia's dentention centre for illegal immigrants, merry christmas!
Cock Wash - State: SA - Google Map
There's also a creek of the same name...
Cockburn - State: WA - Google Map
Named in honor of Vice Admiral Sir George Cockburn.
Coffin Bay - State: SA - Google Map
Named after Vice Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin.
Come By Chance - State: NSW - Google Map
Wouldn't plan on going there.
Delicate Nobby - State: NSW - Google Map
A popular tourist destination.
Diapur - State: VIC - Google Map
A place to go when youv'e got the..?
Dismal Swamp - State: TAS - Google Map
As named by the surveyor who had a less than enjoyable time in the area!
Dog Swamp - State: WA - Google Map
woof woof, bubble bubble...
Doo Town - State: TAS - Google Map
A place of action!
Dunedoo - State: NSW - Google Map
Prononced 'dunny-doo', in Aus lingo a dunny is a toilet!
Eggs and Bacon Bay - State: TAS - Google Map
You'd be dissapointed if they didn't serve a great brekky at the local cafe.
Foul Bay - State: SA - Google Map
Apparently a much nicer place than the name implies and how can you go wrong when it's just down the road from Tiddy Widdy Beach!
Gingin - State: WA - Google Map
The Aboriginal meaning is "place of many streams".
Gooloogong - State: NSW - Google Map
In the small town there are apparently about 250 Gooloogongians!
Goonoo Goonoo - State: NSW - Google Map
Pronounced "gunna g'noo"
Grong Grong - State: NSW - Google Map
Meaning 'poor camping ground'
Humpty Doo - State: NT - Google Map
Home of a boxing croc
Humpybong - State: QLD - Google Map
Humpybong means "dead shelters" in Aboriginal.
Innaloo - State: WA - Google Map
Innaloo is the name of an Aboriginal woman of the Dongara region. Sadly it has nothing to do with being in a loo!
Koolyanobbing - State: WA - Google Map
Aboriginal name meaning 'large hard rocks'
Manangatang - State: VIC - Google Map
Aboriginal word meaning land and water.
Mangalore - State: VIC - Google Map
It's Mang-alore not Man galore girls!!
Mooball - State: NSW - Google Map
Make sure you visit the Moo Moo Cafe if driving by!
Moolooloo - State: NT - Google Map
Aboriginal for 'slippery ridges'.
Mount Buggery - State: VIC - Google Map
Bugger, it's a mountain!
Nar Nar Goon - State: VIC - Google Map
From the aboriginal word for koala.
Nowhere Else - State: TAS - Google Map
There is also a place called Nowhere Else in SA too!
Orange - State: NSW - Google Map
And what do they grow there in abindance? Apples of course!
Ozenkadnook - State: VIC - Google Map
Means "very fat kangaroo" in Aboriginal.
Pimpinbudgie - State: QLD - Google Map
South of Kingaroy on the way to Toowoomba.
Poowong - State: VIC - Google Map
From the Aboriginal word for "carrion" or "putrefaction".