Australia Sucks At Naming Things
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Soz Oz
how about the australian capital territory?
Hi
It's fine mate!
All good mate
“What should we name the Australian Capital Territory?”
“That’s perfect!”
I Am A Shape I keep on forgetting that place is a state, LOL.
Its a territory..
@@an_impasse
It isn't, it can't constitutionally be one.😑
Just to add to the original post the region that is now the ACT was originally called the Federal Capital Territory. Not sure if that's any better or worse.
The ACT is just a glorified New South Wales anyway
I Am A Shape colonialism has destroyed naming conventions. Before colonialism, names devolved over time. After colonialism, names had to be created on the spot. Get ready for garbage names for everything once space colonization picks up
As an Aussie we don’t have time to stuff around.
“What did you get bitten by??”
“I believe it was a furine tricot....”
“WHAT BLOODY COLOUR WAS IT MATE!”
Thats true. If you had to describe a yellow bellied black snake or red bellied black snake without calling it that you would describe it more as a cobra with its rounded hooded flat neck an that would get you the wrong anti venom.
Yeah, when it comes to venomous/poisonous organisms, time is paramount. Better to call it what it looks like rather than "well, the pattern of his scales reminded me of me nan's knittin' and it was loik a long sock wif da complexion of tanned leather"
Yeah, but couldn't it at least be called the "brown bellicose" snake or the "mudcolored motherf*cker" snake or something more evocative but still descriptive? ;-)
Fortunately the current antivenom covers all the type of venomous snakes now so you just need to tell them snake bite and they give you the catch-all treatment
Luke Gallen Ahahahaha
Some of my favourite names in Western Australia include :
The Great Sandy Desert
The Little Sandy Desert
Lake Disappointment
And Denmark, because it causes confusion any time I mention it
god fuck Denmark, shit used to confuse the hell out of me as a kid
Don't forget our border-town Texas in Queensland.
Mount disappointment lop
My favorite is Humpty Doo, NT. What does it mean?
I like the Simpson desert because I think of The Simpson’s XD
OKay okay okay, as an Aussie, the name "redback spider" strikes fear into the hearts of children playing outside everywhere
Redback spiders are venomous
You aren't truly Australian if you fear the (surprisingly docile) hand sized (or larger) spiders over the redback.
Benjamin Ferraro yes because scaring children is sooooo hard
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Redbacks are impossible to spot and love dark spaces... like your shoes.
On top of that the bite can be anywhere from painful to fatal.
There is a reason why it is good practice to check one's shoes before putting them on outside of the cities.
If you don't fear (or at least respect) them as an *adult* then Australia is not for you.
Daniel Smith that was more a dig at the phrase than why he was using it. And it was a joke
We have three types of names:
Obvious
Named after a person
And aboriginal
Should all be Indigenous. And ran by the Indigenous.
@@quidohmi9286 Well then who's pay the taxes for the welfare?
Oh no.
Don't forget the lovely city of Swan Hill.
No there are no swans.
No, it is nowhere near a hill.
But the name sounds nice.
@@timotheatae Yes. By non colonists. Should probably be multiple countries, tbh. Instead of one big one.
3:48 “...black mountain because there’s a black mountain.”
*Montenegro stares in disbelief*
TIL Montenegro is called Montenegro because of
Monte-negro
@@lukastaubert5721 in the languages of former Yugoslavian countries (Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia etc) Montenegro is called Crna Gora, which also means Black Mountain.
I ive quite close to Black Mountain, the tower on top of it is literally just known as Telstra Tower named after the telecommunications company that built it lmao
There is a city in Australia called Townsville
(Edit) a guy in the reply’s said that in French the city would be called towntown Credit to:doyoueven deaky
I thought it was a town?
It was settled by a dude named "Towns", I believe. Or maybe just named after him. But the name isn't truly redundant.
Powerpuff girls live there?
AR15Si yea the powerpuff girls are Australian
@@Ronathanrongers his is known for boot scooting
Dude, never be sorry about calling out Australians, we are happy to laugh at ourselves without causing ww3
Aye aha
Ayyy
Yeah mate.
Yeah, it is also the only type of publicity that we get
yeah we're just here for piss n skids
When we were replacing a historic boat that travelled to Antarctica for research, there was a public vote for its name and it is now called "Boaty McBoatface
Connor and that idea was taken from england when they were naming a boat
sticksomechopsunderthegrill guess what. Our people were taken from England too
@@fungus20009 shippy mc shipface?
They ended up calling it Ferry Mcferryface I believe, but Boaty Mcboatface was the former name of the RSS David Attenborough
No it wasn't. It was named David Attenborough.
A small submarine drone on it was called Boaty McBoatFace though
You forgot the Australian Capital Territory
Most Australians try hard to forget that Canberra exists as well.
Boring and literal territorial name, interesting etymology of the capital
@@Dave_Sisson
Come now Canberra is the only place that its legal to buy fireworks, film and sell hardcore porn, and apparently buy weed, to name a few.... Yet it remains a good place to visit if you need somewhere boring enough to take a nap.
aussie here, and very honest I would much rather that thing just not exist
You also forgot about Jervis Bay Territory
Our state names suck, but our town names are interesting and weird af like Wagga Wagga
Spike Milligan once made the observation that "you can call Wagga Wagga, Wagga but you can't call Woy Woy, Woy." lol
Cant forget Walla Walla
@@frostysimo1394 Haha. You could probably call Walla Walla, Walla. lol.
Panidi Panidi
Blackbutt is also a weird town name
Suburb in Sydney called "Woolloomooloo"... aka "Sheep Toilet Cow Toilet"
There is a set of sculptures on Cathedral St in Wolloomooloo of a sheep, a toilet, a cow and another toilet, in front of each is a yellow diamond sign. WOOL. LOO. MOO. LOO.
I swear to you, I've never heard it called Sheep Toilet Cow Toilet, thank you so much for sharing this with me
is this actually real?
@@Retravox Indeed it is, foreign child
Completely wrong, Woolloomooloo is an Aboriginal name. “Woolloomooloo could be derived from either Wallamullah, meaning place of plenty or Wallabahmullah, meaning a young black kangaroo.”
Western Australia actually used to be called the swan river colony in the early days, because it was a colony on a river with swans in it.
Thats some history for ya.
i didn’t even know that i live in the state
@Faqyur Ma'ama Im pretty sure it was Tasmania that was Van Diemens Land...
You're not helping. lol
@Faqyur Ma'ama no, the entirety of Australia was called New Holland
Name explain: australia sucks at naming places
Australia: Eggs and Bacon bay in Tassie
Jenson Vincent That sounds like it would go well with Parsley Bay in Vaucluse in Sydney. We’re building up a bit of a brekky here!
I live near there and honestly I wish there was a cafe there that sold egg and bacon. Such a waste of a name.
*_mans dark hole_*
Ibis
@FilmThemesAndScenes ........ How many states and territories are there? Also Seven Mile Beach is in Tassie
It’s ironic a Brit is mocking Australian place names when most of them when they were named by British Explorers or after British aristocracy.
@Mr MEMé Oh, you're just rude .. it just says it in the channel name, doesn't it.
The Brits came up with the awesome name New South Wales
It's Walse, but in the south
Nah, it's just where we put the convicts, no need to put in any effort! lol
Exactly! Hahahaha
I mean can u really blame them, they named their capitol city London short term for Londonium from the Romans who colonized them
Uploading when most of Australia is asleep... sneaky.
Bold of you to assume I actually sleep at a reasonable time on school nights...
The perfect 3am viewing 💁🏻♀️
•o•
I'm working at that time, tricky bugger.
You can say that again...
Anyone else see the irony of “Name Explain” disliking places/things with literal names?
it's not ironic though; he did explain them like he said he would xP
To have a name is not enough to satisfy Name Explain, but for the name to require an explanation.
It's no fun if it's literal and obvious
And this is where you're all wrong and Chris was correct, because Name Explain itself is literal asf..thus Ironic.
I am Welsh, I live in Australia, people ask me where I'm from, I say Wales...
"Oh so your from New South Wales?"
"No, I'm from the ACTUAL SOUTH WALES"
"What's that?"
How can people be so dumb...
Not dumb. Simple.
LOL at Actual South Wales. Also there are Novocastrians without Geordie accent, in Non-actual South Wales or NSW.
It took me a long time as a kid to recognize what Wales actually is. I only knew New South Wales for the longest time.
@@Mr4thQTR not even simple. Uncomplicated.
Essentially your South Wales has no international standing .. and it's wee, to be fair. So, not 'dumb', just you got nothing to be proud about. No wonder we don't know. *winks*
it isn't exclusive to Australia: if you translate Beijing and Nanjing they literally mean northern capital and southern capital respectively
Tokyo also literally means east capital in Japanese, while the former capital Kyoto means capital city.
And TOKYO and KYOTO are anagrams.
@@APH1991 The 'to' are different things tho. 東 vs. 都
And Seoul means capital city.
the joke “we’re creative, aren’t we” is common when you pass literally named places on road trips, ie “crows nest” “blue mountains”
they glow blue oooooooooo
I live near crows nest and never thought about that, is there litterally a well known crows nest there?
Australia: what shall we name the Australian Capital Territory?
Also Australia: Yes.
Born and lived in Australia all my life. We have historically been a practical people so i'd call the names less 'mundane' or 'boring' and just 'descriptive'.
I never noticed how mundane our names are until you just pointed them out. It's just normal for me.
And don't worry about insulting us. We're just happy to be noticed.
Started raging when you called it "North Australia", immediately calmed down when you corrected it to "Northern Territory". Great video mate! (P.S. you forgot the Australian Capital Territory, one guess as to what it's for...)
Is the Australian Capital Territory in the Northern Territory. Just Kidding, but for real, why's the capital considered a territory and not a district? Like Mexico City, or D.C.?
@@Trundalassk Because unlike The District of Columbia the ACT and Northern Territory is represented in Parliament... The NT used to be part of South Australia to add to the confusion.
Then there is Jervis Bay Territory...
@@showusyabits Jervis Bay is part of the Australian Capital Territory....(it just isn't joined up).
@@allangibson8494 It is Administered by the ACT but is a separate Commonwealth territory.
As a superior Australian I laugh at "uh-luh-roo" and spit on you for being a foreigner. Tis "oo-lah-roo"
Nah I kid we all chill af here
There's a place in Australia called Mount Buggery, this entire video is invalid.
That's the place where I lost my wallet
Within a small area in the mountains in the state of Victoria are: Mt Buggery, Mt Despair, Mt Speculation, Mt Thorn, Horrible Gap, Hells Window, Hellfire Creek and The Devils Staircase, most of them overlook a valley named The Terrible Hollow.
I can't decide if the first explorers were just having a really bad week or if they were emos?
Dave Sisson That certainly explains Mount Disappointment
Dont forget about basically every place called Knob
@@Dave_Sisson You guys seem to forget, Australia was a prison, I think they did it on purpose to make it sound like they're not just on holiday in the sun, else everyone in England in the 1800's would have wanted to go there.
As someone from New Zealand, this happens here too. Like the two main islands are known as the North Island and the South Island, on which the northernmost and southernmost regions are known as Northland and Southland. We even have a city that is named after another city in the same country, namely Palmerston North (the other city is just known as Palmerston, and is actually the smaller of the two). Even the name 'New Zealand' itself is boring, being named after a province in the Netherlands that has nothing to do with us.
A lot of the Māori names are a lot more interesting, such as the names for the islands being Te Ika-a-Māui (Maui's fish, deriving from a legend telling of how Maui fished the island out of the sea) and Te Waipounamu (the place of greenstone/jade). The native name for the country Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) is also much nicer imo, it's also way easier to pronounce than most people give it credit for (just try saying ow-tear-rower, pronounced the British way, not like in American English with the hard 'r' sound).
Well, it could have been worse. They could have been called Island #1 and Island #2.
Well, we could always annex you and then you'd fit right in with Australia's naming.
Colonists are boring.
The interesting thing about the name 'New Zealand' is that it's spelled wrong... The province that it is named after is Zeeland
Only souther English dont have a hard r sound, the rest of the UK does have a hard R sound
This is the most attention WA has gotten in a long time
Even within the country like when was the last time you saw the today show talk about anything over there
Same for South Australia!
Yes, I'd forgotten WA and SA even existed. Thought you'd left ages ago
Canberra: Am I a joke to you?
Edit: Actually Australian Capital Territory
Fucked
Cranberry?
And Jervis Bay Territory- probably the most interesting
Canberra is a joke, it's Indigenous for cleavage. 😂
@@emrox4181 Really? Cranberry means cleavage?
Meanwhile in England.
Oh, we can bathe here, let's call this place "bath".
Bath is named after the Roman baths of Aquae Sulis, the same could be said of Cologne, Germany which comes from _Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium_ or “Colony of Claudius and Altar of the Agrippinians”.
I think it was... The Romans built a bath house here, let's call this place "Bath".
England here, let's call it uttoxeter, umm, what mate? Then there's Strathclyde, and Cockermouth, and Milton Keynes, and Middlesex..... I'm not kidding
Don't forgot "Looe"
Im Australian
And i know that theres a place in Australia called Orange
Been there, rang the bells and got the T-shirt. Literally.
Lol
There’s also a town called Banana
And a place near there called Crookwell and Lucknow
Named in honour of the Prince of Orange by his old mate Thomas Mitchel Surveyor General Of NSW.
7 mile beach is actually 6 miles long
So Aussies suck at naming things AND at measuring too
It was probably 7 miles long when they named it but erosion over the next couple centuries washed away a mile of it. Or maybe I'm wrong and the previous comment was right.
@@IgabodDobagi thats not how erosion works, erosion would push the beach in land but could not make the beach less wide
Sir Surname | I think they suck at conversions, or perhaps global warming as usual is to blame for this apparent misunderstanding of land distance.
@@Zakimals erosion pulls sand off of the beach into the ocean. At least in Florida it does. They often truck in loads of sand to replenish the beaches at the fancy hotels. So I don't know what you're talking about.
As someone who lives in Perth, western Australia, I would love to see you cover some of our native aboriginal names!
Hello, I'm from here too!
Me two
A good one is Joondalup, wanneroo, Wangara, kariniup & mullaloo
Im from Sydney and I live near a suburb which has an Aboriginal name called Narwee
He’d screw it up.
Wollongong!
Location named after a compass direction: **exists**
Name Explain: Ho hum, what a boring name.
Location named after a compass direction *_in Latin:_* …
Name Explain: Very interesting! Now there's a name with some history behind it!
Well, Latin's pretty historical...
What’s a good name for the bridge that goes over the Sydney harbour?
What about Sydney harbour bridge?
tHaTs aN eXeLlEnt IdEa
I prefer its informal nickname of the coathanger.
so many good ideas
What is a coathaner????🤔🤔sorry don’t get it... it’s Sydney harbour for good reason cause if the back history of how it was made
We all have wired names, every country is wired and that’s good cause being different is fun and unique
Whats a good name for a big house in Sydney that opera singers sing at?
What about the Sydney Opera House?
tHaTs aN eXeLlEnt IdEa
@@donaldstasinowsky1276 That's the Auckland Harbour Bridge. SHB is an upscaled Firth of Forth bridge
Theory:
Australia named them for
**SIMPLICITY**
Australia didn’t name them. Britain did.
Probably. I can't imagine someone with a snake dangling from his ankle being too concerned about naming the little bugger.
-"Take this goddamn brown snake off me leg, doctor!"
-"A *brown* snake? Brilliant! How did I not think of that?"
@@dat581 if you live in Australia, your Australian. Since the British named them on this land, they must've been living here meaning they were Australian.
@@LK1 " if you live in Australia, your Australian. Since the British named them on this land, they must've been living here meaning they were Australian."
I've seen some ignorant things said before but this beets the lot.
@@dat581 I am Australian...
The way he pronounced Uluru made every Australian churn
As someone from South Australia, we aren’t dull we are just straight to the point
Brett Watkins and our capital city is shaped like a grid with its four outside roads being called north terrace, south terrace, eat terrace and west terrace lol
Lol yes but at least they are accurate names
Also your forgetting port Adelaide can you guess what it is
Do you say lago or lego
Blackmans Bay is in Tasmania.
literally: black man's bay
Apparently the Europeans saw 'black people' (indigenous Australians) in the bay when they first arrived.
Shall we also continue on about some other places? We have Seven Mile Beach, Sandy Bay, etc.
that is actually incorrect, it is NOT named after the aboriginal people who lived in the bay. it is named after the early family which settled there, the Blackmans.
@@mbot1556 Well you learn something new everyday. I suppose the point still stands though. It's a pretty literal name.
@@yeahnah1731 It is a literal name, but not literal in the way you'd assume. "Blackman", coming from Old English "Blæc + man" OR "blac + man". "Blæc" means dark, black, whilst "blac" meant "pale" or "fair".
Thus when the Vikings invaded the North of England and colonised it, they sometimes got called "blacmen", or "pale men", likely referring to their paler white skin and their fair hair.
With the other meaning, from "blæc", you do get the idea of "dark man", but "dark" has nothing to do with skin colour here. It likely refers to dark hair, or potentially to people whose occupations left them eternally covered in filth or dirt.
Apparently, "Blake", a semi-common name in America but not anymore in the commonwealth, is also a descendant of the practice of using "Blac/Blæc +man" as a forename.
IS TASSIE RACIST!!???😂🤣
Fun fact: Kangaroo means “I don’t know...” in a extinct aboriginal language. A native was asked what that hooping thing was called. You can guess what he answered, and that stayed the name...
We don't know where Yucatan's name comes from, but there's a colossal probability that it comes from one of the native languages, and it means (get this).. "I can't understand you!" Aaand that became the name.
@@GumSkyloard Canada, too, means something like "village"
@@victoriahaque5519 Yam come from a West African word meaning to eat (nyame)-- what the native people told the Europeans what you DO with it when asked what it's called.
Uluru is usually pronounced as “ooo-ler-roo” only faster
Harrison Turner amean buddy you go
Yeah, but its also called "The Rock", "The Red Rock" " The big rock" or even "The Big Red Rock" It is very creative
@@sammytilley3654 you missed 'Ayers Rock'
@@laseristic that name is too complicated for us aussies
You forgot ACT. No worries, we forget them too sometimes 😂
But they remembered Tasmania
Is Tasmania even part of Australia anymore Like I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone from Tasmania and I live in Victoria
You know they just could've made ACT part of NSW
Jasper Kanoao4 there’s literally nothing there
@@feurysj4707 Lol, that wouldnt work back during Federation, and they are so different it wouldn't work now
Jasper Kanoao4 our families nickname for Tasmania is “cold sh*t hole”
I'm Australian living in Sydney. I laughed so hard at this video. As I could relate to everything. Love it. This is gold!
But we've got a lot of 'great' names too:
Great Barrier Reef
Great Dividing Range
Great Australian Bight
Great Sandy Desert
All named by the Brits.
David Jennings of Great Britain
Great Ocean Road to
We like great things and big things - great big things
The name that cracks me all the time is the name of the opal mining town "Coober pedy", which in aboriginal means: "white men in holes in the ground"
Coober Pedy or Kupa Piti local dialect translates to "Boys Waterhole"
There's a mountain in Australia called 'Mount Disappointment' because when they reached the top, they couldn't see the ocean. They were disappointed, thus the name.
Northern Territory isn’t a state, it’s a territory as said in the name
He said that
Go back and look
He said that it’s a territory but it’s technically a state so he was just gonna go with it
Honestly I couldn’t care less. At least he acknowledged that it wasn’t a state
As said in the video
Icebobk exactly buddy😁
Even though he didn't say it was technically a state in the video, To avoid misinformation:
If it was a territory that was technically a state that implies it's a state that has the name 'Territory' in it. It is not.
it has yet to be involved with Article VI Section 24 (New States) in the Australian constitution.
It is self-governing, but that doesn't change it's status. The difference between them and the other states is that Parliament may veto any laws that the territories elected council makes, it can decide how many people, if any, represent it at parliament and how long their terms are.
So to correct you for anyone who reads, It's technically a territory because it is a territory, as the name implies.
Anyone from Darwin here watching this video!!!
"Break-me-neck Hill" had me dying 😂💀😂💀😂
Don't forget "Boobs Flat", "Asses Ear", "No No Hole" and "Crack Pot"
A bit off-topic but, There’s a flight of stairs in Quebec City called the ‘break-your-neck steps’
Another comment mentioned Mt. Buggery
Right past "Split-me-head Gorge" and before "Splat Mountain"?
@@culdeefp4817 is that real though?
"the top end" refers to the northern most AREA of Queensland. Not just the tip.
The top end is the Northern Territory
For offending our proud nation you're now sentenced to booting by a Pouch Rabbit
Or by a sleepy bear
please don't tell me it's a rabbit with a pouch
@@ebiUsher It's actually a deer x rabbit x t-rex.
Followed by Angry Dog.
Followed by the swoop bird
I love how he goes to all the literal names and skips over all the weird places like we only have boring literally names
All the Nobs, for instance ...
3:53 there is actually two big bends in Australia, one is the photo you showed and another is a bend in the yarra river, melbourne. but the river itself has an interesting name.
when melbourne was being first founded some aboriginals took a couple on a boat ride through the river (idk the context that lead to this) and when they reached the end of the river, being stopped by a waterfall they asked the aboriginals what the name of the river was, they said yarra yarra, but there was a mistake in communication because they thought that they were asking what a waterfall is called. so the yarra river, means waterfall river by accident.
but later the bastards blew up the waterfall to make room for ships to go through.
We also like to call things “Great”: Great Barrier Reef, Great Dividing Range, Great Australian Bight, etc
Then there is all the kitsch “Big” stuff. Which amounts to a bunch of giant fibreglass models of scattered around the country: eg Big Banana, Big Prawn, Big Pineapple, Big Oyster, etc, etc
Big Merino, however it's made of concrete.
@@hugoyoung4890 aha i've seen the big Marino
@@hugoyoung4890 The Big Merino is also known as Rambo.
My favorite Australian City name is “Wollongong”. It just sounds so funny.
What about the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo?
ever been to Meadlow Bath?
As an Aussie, I love the name, because it fit how we talk
Nar nar goon is also a good one
In aboriginal wollongong means shit hole 😉
I live in Western Australia :|
Also there’s a town called Innaloo…
Yes it’s said as a joke…
Ay another Perth lad
an i live in a place called takashitinnaloo
Don't forget Cockburn
Janina JT thank you 🙏
@@janinajt4611 yup i fuckin live there
There is a Mount Kosciuszko in Austalia named after Polish national hero. I think it's interesting too
He's a minor hero in the US too. He worked for the Continental Army for a couple of years. There's a statue of him in Lafayette Park across from the White House.
Given it was named by a guy called Strzelecki that is understandable.
It's the highest mountain in Australia and his name is incorrectly pronounced locally.
An interesting mountain, in the boringly named Snowy Mountains, which are part of the boring Great Dividing Range.
Ggdivhjkjl I mean English doesn’t have the ś and ci sounds in Kościuszko so it’s a bit unfair to expect them to pronounce it correctly innit
I think the best explanation for Australia's naming theme I've heard came from this tour guide, up by the Blue Mountains and the Three Sisters. He was explaining this to his tour group (We we're interstate visitors, but everyone else on the bus were international tourist), and he said:
"Us Aussies, we like to keep things simply. Those mountains are blue? Blue Mountain. Great big sandy desert? Great Sandy Desert. Great Australian Bite, Great Barrier Reef, you get the gist of it. Simple and easy to remember, it's truly Aussie of us." And yes he deepened his accent just for the internationals.
It's also funny to hear Name Explain riff on animals like the Brown Snake and the Redback. Those are animals to be feared, you don't mock them. It's interesting too, since such animals like they an others (Blue-Ring Octopus comes to mind) are so ingrained in the Australian culture, their names don't get a second batting. At least from me and those I've known.
Otherwise, I really liked this video! Glad someone else noticed our terrible naming system.
Though sad Mt. Disappointment didn't get a shoutout, Mt. Disappointment should always get mentioned because it's name is silly.
well i live in australia, and i've never heard anyone say we like to keep things simple,
its probably because the people who colonised australia (british) have only been here since the late 1700s, so there was no cultural name for many of the places. This resulted in names that are very literal.
@@longboy7
Well there was cultural names that existed before British arrival, they just up and ignored those names (and also of the existence of the people who those names belonged too). Either way, we have the naming system that we do, and it's became an Australian thing regardless of it's origins.
when you said “one nation”, i flinched
You don’t say Uluru like that mate, god you butchered it. “oo-ler-roo” or “oo-lo-roo” both sound similar enough.
I think the biggest problem was which syllable he emphasised. He emphasised the second syllable, while we would emphasise the first one.
new south wales was called that because: the state reminded him of wales. the "new" was because it was the new wales, like new york and new zealand. the "south" is because its on the south side of the planet.
It's also on the south side of the country
@@sammytilley3654 exactly, which is the same as south australia
@@pegfingers Yeah, but in space, there is no directions. So because earth is in space, there are only cardonal points for things on the earth, but there are times when Australia is the northernmost point of the earth
James Cook wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed
two worst place names that exist here though: "Street Place" in Canberra, and "High St Road" in Melbourne
I love how they couldn't just call it High Street, like the numerous high streets in England. It had to be "High St Road".
@@k-leb4671 As it turns out (and you might remember this from school) naming a road is because it's the road to somewhere, so High Street Road, should be the road to High Street. I just google mapped it, and it is indeed the case; High Street Road is the road to High Street Glen Iris . Nice.
i’m from toowoomba, never thought i would hear that name from a foreigner
Is it just me (I’m from Brisbane) but do you say Tahwomba
Rebecca Rachel pretty much that way
Rebecca Rachel as someone from Toowoomba I can confirm
Lol same but I guess our city is expanding, though I kinda wish it was slightly smaller.
played a gew good games of rugby against Toowoomba Grammar few years ago
Uluru is pronounced:
Ool-la-roo
Just as Unanderra is pronounced:
You-nan-dare-ra
And Kiama is:
Ky-am-ma
*Ayer’s Rock
No, it is Uluru.
OceaniaMapping *Ayer’s Rock i think you’re just slamming your keyboard with your fists
@@dcoulter2685 How fragile you are. It's Uluru.
quidohmi y’all are saying some damn yugioh card. I thought we were talking about the big rock in Australia; Ayer’s Rock...
“Pouch rabbit, leaf monkey” I’m dying
They forgot giant pouch rabbit, hahaha
There was such a missed an opportunity to talk about the irony of Mount Disappointment in Victoria..
I live on Kangaroo Island. Bet you can’t guess why it’s called that
Cos tons of kangaroos are found there.. we know
There is actually 6 states an 2 territories. But who’s counting
not him
And all thee pieces fall, right in to place... sorry I had to
Taylor Swift So it goes reputation
what about over seas territories, like the amazingly named Australian Antarctic Territory
Australia actually has more than 2 territories. Those 2 are just on the mainland.
I was mind blown when I found out Australia had more than 2 territories, and part of Antarctica was one.
Townsville, a place name that ended up as a joke in a children's cartoon is an actual place name here.
To be fair there is a "Townsville" in almost everystate of America.
The powerpuff girls?
When I was young I thought the show was set in Australia for just that reason
@@codysodyssey3818 so did I at first. Especially since I grew up in Townsville in QLD. I was a little chuffed when I first saw it
Pocketrocketrule hey at least we make up for by having most state and a lot of city names be based off native names (Idaho, Detroit, the dakotas)
The one time my state is on the thumbnail of a vid and we’re being insulted.
I feel that
We often say a name and then call it "original". Cemetery Rd, there's a cemetery on that road, "Cemetery Rd, how original."
This might be the first 'Australian Video' that actually has REAL facts in it... all the other videos I have seen are pretty bad. Good job!
-From Australia
I say this extremely accurate video that australia did not exist, except, it feels pretty real to me, but EVerYThing oN THE IS reAl
*from Victoria
Magnetic island. Its an island, that's a bit magnetic.
In Melbourne, there's a suburb named Airport West. It's west of the airport, would you believe it?
As an Australian, I’ve definitely noticed the literal names we have - but I never knew this was unique to Australia! I always thought that everywhere else had dull names too.
My favourite dull named local landmark is Mosquito Creek. Needs no explanation.
But you can't say that you could misidentify anything.
"Quick Shassa's been bite by a snake"
"What type of snake?"
"I don't know. It was brown"
Or
"It was black and had a red belly"
Our names may be boring, but they're useful.
It's certainly not the only land guilty of obvious, dull names. Imagine a land that calls its biggest mountain range "Rocky Mountains" ;)
I live in Florida and we have a section of a wide creek called alligator crotch. Guess how it's shaped and guess what inhabits it. Or go with your initial thought.
@@sussekind9717
So its full of some sort of super STI crab
i don't think it's only us with those dull names...
like for example, in canada, they have "new foundland" literally newly found; and "north west territories", "new brunswick", "new scotland" but they are fancy and call it "nova scotia", "british columbia", "prince edward island"
new zealand has north island and south island
it's probably the early settlers were so meh and didn't bother naming places at all
You forgot to mention the capital territory.. what’s it called... oh yeah..
Australian Capital Territory
My country's capital "region" is literally called National Capital Region or NCR for short lol.
“What should we call The land down under?”
“Yes”
It’s not a joke in Australia because we have bigger things to worry about like magpies and seatbelts in
Summer.
The town right next to where I live, in Australia, is called Cockburn. Australians pronounce it Coburn. Foreigners do not.
It’s so we can remember names, we are simple
1. We don't like frills
2. Seven mile beach is lovely and it is pretty impressive
3. Look into the etymology of Coonabarabran or Coonamble
[bad Australian accent]"Oh No! A Grumpy Dog ate my baby!"[/bad Australian accent]
yeah, that doesn't work.
would have turned that tragedy into a comedy real fast.
For the sake of respect, a dingo really did take her baby.
@@Ggdivhjkjl yeah, true story. But Meryl Streep did have a horrible accent. And hearing her say grumpy dog instead of dingo would have been hilarious despite the fact that it was based on real events.
Please, the English name for a Dingo is a Danger Doggo.
Watching from western Australia!
Hello from a fellow Sandgroper!
The animals aren't compensating for anything, they're all deadly, and therefore they don't need a cool name.
Seriously, kangaroos will fuck you up. They're strong as hell and they will kick out your stomach. Magpies will dive bomb you. A koala will give you chlamydia. The male Platypus' has poison barbs. The ocean. Just the ocean.
@@airplanenojutsu fuck platypus', lil gronks
Our snakes and spiders have such simple names because of how dangerous they are and that we have to learn this at a very young age. Makes them easy to remember and learn as a kid.
Six states bro. Then 10 or so territories...
Also, Toowoomba is pronounced "Ta-woom bah".
Uluru is "oo la ru".
I felt like throwing up when he said uluru
Two territories - NT & ACT.
"i really hope my australian views see the lighter side in all of this"
brother we are australian ! we see the lighter side in everything :)
if there's one thing we true australians love it's bring made fun of ❤
Yup! As an Aussie I can say we don't mind cause we take the piss out of everyone anyway.
We don't even take our naming seriously.
I'm from Australia and live in a place called the lake estate cause its an estate with a lake..
I've followed you for a pretty long time and you've made me have an interest in the English language I never previously had. Good luck with your endeavours!
There is towns in Australia called, Townsville, Carins and Woolloomooloo.
townsville is a city
Woolloomooloo is a suburb of Sydney, not a town.
MrCordycep sorry.
Cairns central is so fucking expensive
Otakushinobi14, agreed.
Get this:
The roads in the south east? South East Road.
In the main north? Main North Road.
This is not a joke.
Why Western Australia and South Australia
Not West Australia and Southern Australia?
I agree here; there should at least be consistency somewhere.
I thought this too. XD
Emil Auadisian just cuz
(But most of the time they r called WA and SA)
9:54
Check the pronunciation of Uluru
We have a rule in Australia: everything is named after one of three things:
1) dead white dude
2) an indigenous word
3) literally just what it is
An example of each would be Stirling highway (in Perth), yarrinup (also in Perth) and then western australia
I love this. I'm an Aussie myself and very sneaky uploading at 2am Australia time. 😂😂😂 (btw, you forgot ACT)
Bah! If only we could all forget that the Australian Capital Territory ever existed.
@@mathewpoole3589 nah mate.
@@hugoyoung4890
;p
6:00 that's a real map
@Protrixer Australia isn't real
"white cliffs of dover" - who do you think named half the places here ;)
When a place you live like 10 minutes away from is the first place on the list.
“The Australian larrakin sense of humour”. It’s why you will find trees wearing boots.
Also, most of the native names are equally descriptive when translated.
In my country we have a town named "don't touch me" so.. I understand Australians lol.
(Não-me-toque in portuguese, my country's language)
There's also Picha (slang for penis) here in Portugal.
The name of my city (manchester, uk) is derived from the Latin for tit hills, I'd say its accurate.
Might it have been named after the *flowers* "touch me not" growing nearby?
It’s because we ran out of ridiculous names for everything else
The Gabba
Gunga
Indooroopilly
Taree
Moggill
Toowong
Woolengabba