Research Catalog

Title

Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else : the stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names / Eamon Evans ; [illustrated by Peter Broelman].

Author

Evans, Eamon

Publication

• Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Broelman, Peter

Description

vii, 279 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. Australia's vast spaces and irreverent, larrikin history have given us some of the best place names in the world. Ranging from the less than positive (Linger and Die Hill, NSW), to the indelicate (Scented Knob, WA), the idiotic (Eggs and Bacon Bay, TAS) to the inappropriate and the just plain fascinating, MOUNT BUGGERY TO NOWHERE ELSE is a toponymical journey through this nation of weird and wonderful places.

Subject

• Names, Geographical > Australia > Miscellanea
• Curiosities and wonders
• Names, Geographical
• Australia
• Australian

Genre/Form

Miscellanea.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFE 17-3164

ISBN

• 9780733635588
• 073363558X

OCLC

950867617

Author

Evans, Eamon, author.

Title

Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else : the stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names / Eamon Evans ; [illustrated by Peter Broelman].

Publisher

Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed Term

Australian

Added Author

Broelman, Peter, illustrator.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-3164