There are many unusual place names throughout the world. Australia has its fair share of unusual place names that appear odd to English-speakers, but are from other languages. Often they are innocuous in their own tongue.
Because Australia is such a young country, the origins of many of its more quirky names have not been lost in the annals of time, as is the case in many northern hemisphere countries. Check out our section on how Australis's cities and towns got their names to discover Australia's quirkiest place names.