Any Towns, Locations near you with weird names?

Tasmania has a wicked sense of humour when it comes to naming places.

There is a Suburb in Perth called Cockburn, another one called Inaloo

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Nothing Rude. However, with 100 Km of us we have:
Nar Nar Goon
and Koo Wee Rup.
But my personal favourite doesnt have a single letter in the name
1770
😷

Gusman · 61-69, M

@whowasthatmaskedman Strange name, 1776

KiwiBird · 36-40, F

@whowasthatmaskedman Been to it's relative 1770.

KiwiBird · 36-40, F

@Gusman Pre-Cook days.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@KiwiBird My Bad! My Typo! (Corrected)😷 @KiwiBird

KiwiBird · 36-40, F

@whowasthatmaskedman I thought so. One way to remember when the Invaders arrived....lol.

KiwiBird · 36-40, F

@whowasthatmaskedman Also helps me remember Cook arrived in NZ the year before that. Too late the Māori had beaten him to it by a few hundred years.