Nyngan

Nyingan
Mitchell's spelling of Nyngan in northern New South Wales.

Mitchell, Thomas, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, in search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848, p.20.

Bugubada
Mitchell's name for a water hole on the Bogan now called Buddabaddah, about 45 km south of Nyngan.

Foster, William C., Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his World, 1792-1855, Sydney, 1985, p.244.


Cannonba Ponds
The name has disappeared but there is now a Canonba Plantation at 31°21′147°21′ between the Bogan and Macquarie rivers.

Mitchell, Thomas, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, in search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848, p.44 and map.


Canonba
Established in the 1840s on Duck Creek, it was bypassed by the extension of the railway to Bourke so the inhabitants moved south to the railway to establish Nyngan on the Bogan.

NRMA, Holiday Guide 13vols, Sydney, 1997-1999, vol.3, p.94.


Loadstone Hill
Oxley's name for Black Mountain in the Warrumbungles.

Oxley, John, Journals of two expeditions into the interior of News South Wales undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18 ,London, 1820, pp.258-62

Whitehead, J.R., An Investigation of John Oxley's Journey in the Coonabarabran District, Coonabarabran, n.d., pp.7-8.


Mount Harrison
Oxley's name for Mount Wambelong in the Warrumbungles.

Johnson, Richard, The Search for the inland Sea John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828, Melbourne, 2001, p.106.


Muda
Mitchell's name for Mudall, on the Bogan River.

Mitchell, Thomas, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, in search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria Adelaide, London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1848, p.20 and map.


New Year's Creek
So named by Sturt in 1828; renamed the Bogan by Mitchell. A tributary of the Barwon in northern New South Wales.

Wells, William Henry, A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies, Sydney, 1848, p.320.