Australia's weird and wonderful place names | Did You Know?

No, seriously. You can go to Nowhere Else. Watch more from the Did You Know? series ►► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn2RjxYNpcawct77myxG-2JGptju1-Hx0 You wouldn’t think twice about the names of most places. Some are just a bit harder to pronounce, and others might cause you to raise an eyebrow. But the names we give to places — even the seemingly weird ones — convey their significance and history and, more often than not, a sense of identity. Following Dutch and English exploration with Willem Janszoon, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, Terra Australis Incognita was colonised and became known as Australia. Several of our place names reflect this colonial history, but other place names reflect an older history - that of Indigenous Australians. RESOURCES Gazetteer of Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/placename# Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) https://aiatsis.gov.au/ Qld place name search https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/qld/environment/land/place-names/search NT names register extract https://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/ NSW names register extract https://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/place_naming/placename_search VIC names register extract https://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/VicnamesUI.jsp WA place name history https://www0.landgate.wa.gov.au/maps-and-imagery/wa-geographic-names/name-history SA place names search https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/planning-and-property/planning-and-land-management/suburb-road-and-place-names/place-names-search Tas place names search https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/ For more from ABC News, click here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/ If you're in Australia, you can watch more ABC News content on iview: https://iview.abc.net.au/channel/news Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://ab.co/1svxLVE You can also like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Or follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_au Or even on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews #DidYouKnow