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 anals of time, as is the case in many northern hemisphere countries.
We've compiled a collection of some of the more unusual Australian place names with a brief description of how and why they were named. We hope you have as much fun reading about as we did researching them.