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Cronulla


Lost Names

Gunnamatta
Said to mean beach and sandhills, now called Cronulla, the Sydney suburb.

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


Kurranulla
So named in 1840 by surveyor Robert Dixon. The name changed to Cronulla, a Sydney suburb, in 1908.

Turnbull, Lucy, Sydney : biography of a city, Sydney, 1999, p.498.

Nearby Lost Names

Fivemile Creek
Now called Rugby, about 65 km east of Young.

MacAlister, Chas., Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South , Goulburn, 1907, p.271.


Highfield
Now the Sydney suburb of Caringbah, said to be the Aboriginal name for the local pademelon wallaby.

Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.22.