Place names of the Wollongong Region

Place names contain a wealth of meaning and history. In developing place names in Australia, native names were often adopted and many place names in the Wollongong region are of Aboriginal background. John Brown, an Illawarra pioneer, carefully listed local place names in the early 19th Century. He noted his interpretation of what the Aborigines called these locations with, where possible, the meanings of the native names. Place names of the Wollongong Region has been compiled by the staff of the Reference Library and contains many place names no longer in use. A new edition of the printed version is available from the library and the information is also available on the Library's website. Please use this blog to give us your feed back about the publication and its contents.