Broken Hill

Willyama
Now called Broken Hill.

Martin, A. E., One thousand and more place names in New South Wales, Sydney, 1943.

Coonbaralba
Now known as Mount Gipps, about 40km north east of Broken Hill.

Sturt, Charles, Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia ... during the years 1844, 5, and 6…, 2vols, London, 1849, vol.1, pp.149-55 and map.


Coonbaralba Range
Sturt's name for the southern section of the Barrier Range in western New South Wales.

Sturt, Charles, Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia ... during the years 1844, 5, and 6…, 2vols, London, 1849, map.


Curnapage Wells
Sturt recorded this Aboriginal name for wells near "The Pinnacles" about 100 km north west of Menindee.

Sturt, Charles, Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia ... during the years 1844, 5, and 6…, 2vols, London, 1849, vol.1, p.163. and map.


Leadville
A forgotten mining town, also known as The Soakage, now a homestead called Purnamoota, about 30km nouth of Broken Hill.

McGowan, Barry, Australian ghost towns, South Melbourne, 2002, p.128.


Mount Lyell
So named by Mitchell after Sir Charles Lyell, President of the Geological Society of London. Now called Mount Lynn, the highest point of the Noonthorangee Range, north east of Broken Hill.

Mitchell, Thomas, Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia : with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South Wales vol.1, London : T. Foster, William C.& W. Boone, 1839, p.244; Foster, William C., Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his World, 1792-1855, Sydney, p.254.


Rocky Glen
A waterhole Sturt named in latitude 31°32' so it was probably near Poolamacca Homestead about 50 km north of Broken Hill.

Sturt, Charles, Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia ... during the years 1844, 5, and 6…, 2vols, London, 1849, vol.1, p.178.


Scrope's Range
Named by Mitchell after George Scrope, an English geologist, now called Scopes Range about 85 km east of Broken Hill.

Foster, William C., Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his World, 1792-1855, Sydney, 1985, p.254.


The Park
An intermittent lake now called Fort Grey or Pinaroo Lake, about 25km south east of Cameron's Corner.

Williams, Gwenneth, South Australian Exploration to 1856, Adelaide, 1919, p.98.


The Soakage
A forgotten mining town, also known as Leadville, now a homestead called Purnamoota, about 30km north of Broken Hill.

McGowan, Barry, Australian ghost towns, South Melbourne, 2002, p.128.


Umberumberka
Said to mean a rad hole, now called Silverton, near Broken Hill.

Reed, A..W., Place-names of New South Wales : Their Origins and Meanings, Sydney, 1969, p.129.

Renamed Silverton in 1882 when silver chlorides were discovered there. Near Broken Hill.

Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G.,Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, p.226.