Brisbane

Edinglassie
The first name given to Brisbane; it came from the Forbes family home in Aberdeenshire and was made up from Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Cunningham, Peter (David S. Macmillan ed.),Two Years in New South Wales, Sydney, 1966, p.369.

Trollope, Anthony, Australia Edited by P.D. Edwards and R.B. Joyce, St.Lucia, 1967, p.69.

Bonyi Bonyi
So named after the bunya bunya pines growing there but it was renamed the Blackall Range to honour Queensland's governor, Samuel Blackall.

Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road, 1999, p.345.


Bumgar
Now called Kilcoy, on the Sunshine Coast. It was also for a time known as Hopetown.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, pp.252-261.


Cape Boreel
D'Entrecasteaux's name for Tasman Head at the south of Bruny Island. The name Boreel Gead survives for a headland a little to the north east.

Duyker, Edward and Mary., Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage to Australia & the Pacific, 1791-1793, Melbourne, 2001, pp. 39, 319.


Cape Cannele
D'Entrecasteaux's name for Fluted Cape, on Bruny Island.

Duyker, Edward and Mary., Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage to Australia & the Pacific, 1791-1793, Melbourne, 2001, p.53.


Cape Trobriand
The name used by d'Entrecasteaux for Cape Queen Elizabeth, on Bruny Island.

Duyker, Edward and Mary., Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage to Australia & the Pacific, 1791-1793, Melbourne, 2001, p.159.


Canoe Creek
Now called Oxley Creek after John Oxley, just south of Brisbane.

Martin, A.E., Place names in Queensland, New Zealand and the Pacific, Sydney, 1944.


Cobb's Camp
From Cobb and Co., now called Woombye on the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, p.60.


Coochin Creek
Now called Beerwah, on the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, p.195.


Dahmongah
Now called Mount Mee, on the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, p.281.


Darling River
So named by Patrick Logan, the Commandant of the Moreton Bay covict garrison, but Governor Darling changed the name to Logan River, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

NRMA, Holiday Guide 13vols., vol.7, Sydney, 1997-1999, p.176.


Durandur
Now called Woodford about 55km north west of Brisbane.

Steele, J.G., Brisbane Town in Convict Days, St. Lucia, 1975, p.21.


Eliza Reefs
Now called Swain Reefs, part of the Great Barrier Reef.

Martin, A.E., Place names in Queensland, New Zealand and the Pacific, Sydney, 1944.


Emu Point
Now called Cleveland, an eastern suburb of Brisbane.

Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.247.


Glasshouse Bay
Now called Moreton Bay, near Brisbane.

Johnston, W. Ross, The Call of the Land A History of Queensland to the Present Day, Milton, 1982, p.5.


Gramzow
Renamed Carbrook during World War I; about 30km south east of Brisbane.

Ramson, W.S., Australian English, an Historical Study of the Vocabulary, 1788-1898, Canberra, 1966, p.156.


Green Hills
Now known as Mount Ommaney, in western Brisbane.

Steele, J.G., Brisbane Town in Convict Days, St. Lucia, 1975, pp.114-116.


Green Point
Now called Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island.

Steele, J.G., Brisbane Town in Convict Days, St. Lucia, 1975, p.77.


Hopetown
Also known as Bumgar, it is now called Kilcoy, on the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, pp.252-261.


Humpybong
An early name for Redcliffe, the Brisbane suburb. The word is said to mean a dead settlement. The name survives in the Humpybong State School.

Chisholm, Alec H., The Australian Encyclopaedia: in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.5, p.31.


Meyer's Ferry
J.H.C. Meyer established a ferry across the Nerang river in 1875; now called Nerang which is said to mean little; on the Goldcoast.

Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p716.


Molongle Creek
Now called Gumlu, a township about 40 km south west of Ayr.

Kerr, John, A Crystal Century The History of Proserpine's Sugar Mill, its Farms and its People, Proserpine, 1997, p.57.


Mueller River
John McKinlay's name given in 1862 after the botanist, Baron von Mueller, for the Diamantina River named in 1866 by William Landsborough after Lady Diamantina Roma, the wife of Queensland's first Governor; in the Channel Country.

Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, p.480.


Nerang Heads
Now called Southport after the English place of that name; at the Gold Coast.

Martin, A. E., Place names in Queensland, New Zealand and the Pacific, Sydney, 1944.


Northpine
Now called Logan Village about 30km south of Brisbane.

Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.271.


Northward
A slang term fot the convict establishment of Moreton Bay.

James, Thomas Horton, Six Months in South Australia, with Some Account of Port Phillip and Portland Bay, London, 1838, p.43.


Petrie's Creek
Now called Nambour, on the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, p. 221.


Razor Back
Renamed Montville by H. Smith, an early settler, because another locality was called Razor Back. On the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, p.184.


Rous Channel
Named after Harry John Rous, the commander of the first warship to enter Moreton Bay. Now called South Passage between Stradbroke and Moreton islands.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney,.1963, Vol. 8, p. 314.


Six Mile Creek
Now called Elimbath, on the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, p.266.


Stegeht
Renamed Woongoolba during World War I; about 40km south east of Brisbane.

Ramson, W.S, Australian English, an Historical Study of the Vocabulary, 1788-1898, Canberra, 1966, p.156.


Terror's Creek
Now called Dayboro, on the Sunshine Coast.

Tutt, Stan, Sunshine coast heritage, Sunshine Coast, 1995, p.261.


Zions Hill
Now the Brisbane suburb of Nundah.

Horwitz, Grahame, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1964, p.1132.