Echuca

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Baala Creek
The Aboriginal name for the Broken Creek which runs into the Murray,near Barmah.

Curr, Edward M., Recollections of Squatting in Victoria, Melbourne, 1965, p.103

Bayungun River
Mitchell recorded this name for the Goulburn River in central Victoria.

Andrews, Alan E.J., Stapylton with Major Mitchell's Australia Felix expedition, 1836 / largely from the journal of Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton ; Alan E.J. Andrews, editor.,Hobart, 1986, p.208

Bayungun River
Mitchell's Aboriginal name, which did not take on, for the Goulburn River of Hume and Havel.

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, London : T. & W. Boone, 1839, map.

Campaspe West
Now called Echuca West, on the Murray.

Coulson, Helen, Echuca-Moama : on the Murray, South Melbourne1995, p.170

Deakin
An alternative name for West Kyabram in honour of his promotion of irrigation.. It is almost 15km south east of Echuca.

Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Book of the Road, Sydney, 1999, p.144.

Fingola
Now called Tongala about 20km south east of Echuca.

Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol. 2, map.

Gunbower
Now called Wee Wee Rup about 60 km from Echuca.

Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.410.

Keely
A forgotten railway station between Leitchville and Cohuna, in northern Victoria, named after a local large land holder.

O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings, together with similar information relative to the capital cities of Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, and a few of the border stations of New South Wales and South Australia / compiled forth, Melbourne, 1918, p.57.

Konela
This developed into Cornelia Creek but is now known as Strathallan, about 15km south of Echuca.

Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, Sydney, 1944, p.76.

Munros Plains
The area watered by the Campaspe River in northern Victoria, named after Henry Monro, an early settler.

Bride, Thomas Francis (ed.,), Letters from Victorian pioneers:…, Melbourne, 1983, pp.247,249.

Paama

The original spelling of Barmah, about 25 km north east of Echuca.

Curr, Edward M., Recollections of Squatting in Victoria, Melbourne, 1965, p.103.

Paboinboolook
Now called Lake Cooper, about 40 km south of Echuca.

Curr, Edward M., Recollections of Squatting in Victoria, Melbourne, 1965, p.39.

Rowe's Camp
Dr. John Rowe in 1846 was the first settler. By 1854 the name had evolved to Rowechester which next year had become Rochester perhaps after the town in Kent. About 60 km north east of Bendigo.

.Aplin, Graeme , Foster, S.G.,Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.414.

Turrumberry
A forgotten township about 80 km north of Bendigo at 36°02′ 144°20′.

Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis : past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol. 2, map.

Waranga
Now known as Rushworth, about 70km north east of Bendigo.

Serle, Geoffrey, The Rush to be Rich・・・, Melbourne, 1971, end-papers.

Wet Diggings
Now called Rushworth, about 60 km north east of Bendigo.

The Australian Encyclopaedia, Sydney, 1963, Aust Ency., vol. 7, p. 521.

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