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Originally Posted by LRT
If you like. I don't have a problem with the name as it is famous throughout the world by both names.
What I do have a problem with, is the way Councils here use two names for local parks & features etc which as kids, we grew up with, with just one name.
Confusing? Yep.
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What a hypocrite:eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Arch
Kati-Thanda (Lake Eyre) & Ikara-Flinders Ranges are a few more. [biggrin]Quote:
Originally Posted by 4bee
Just an aside, but WTF is he carrying in his sac or did he plan on staying for a week or two. Stove, Canned & dried foods, set of oil skins, spare boots, refrigerator, pressure cooker etc, etc. ???Quote:
Originally Posted by Redback
No wonder he was puffing & panting 1/3 of the way up. I would have thought he would have just stripped down to his BONDS briefs & a plastic (OOOOOOO dirty word [smilebigeye]) lunch box.[biggrin]
LRT. Yep that sort of ****.
I actually prefer the indigenous names.Quote:
Originally Posted by LRT
So do I. They have more meaning than some random pommy's names stuck on some place they never even visited by an explorer sucking up to his patron.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redback
At least we can pronounce and spell, in the main, the Pommie names.
the only aboriginal name i know how to pronounce properly is the name kylie. hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Or boringly obvious names like Deep Creek, Big Hole or Snowy Mtns.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
Indigenous names are far more interesting.
Not always sucking up. Captain John Stokes, of HMS Beagle, named the Flinders River in honour of one Matthew Flinders.[biggrin]Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick