Aussie Towns Trivia

[Cat_A]

Mount Isa lays claim do being the worlds largest city by area

I know it technically starts with M not I but its a cracking fact

I'll back you up with this, because it's usually referred to by locals as the Isa.

Yes it is the world's largest city by area. Also home to the world's longest street. Camooweal Street runs from Mt Isa to Camooweal, some 188km away.

It also used to claim to have the biggest rodeo in the Southern hemisphere, and the tallest smoke stack in the Southern Hemisphere at the Mt Isa Mines. Not 100% sure if either of these are still true, but it all combines to make Mt Isa appear to be the Texas of Australia (incidentally the state of Texas would fit inside Mt Isa's area)

 

[matty_k]

Or I could just say Illarwill. A small town outside of Maclean that is Koori for magpie.

 

[bryce]

Lombadina - community in the Kimberley, about 200km (although it seems much further due to the road there) north of Broome. God's country. Sublime, empty beaches, the whitest sand and bluest water I've ever seen. Gorgeous sunsets, great fishing and mud crabs galore.

 

[mark_s]

By my count, about 50% of Aus town names end in an a

 

[suckerforred]

Alpha - Or Alfa depending of where you learnt your geography. No really is a town in QLD

 

[Schadenfreude]

Airlie Beach - The only place in Qld you can get a drink on easter sunday.

 

[Aussie D]

Harrow. A town in the Wimmera in Western Victoria.

 

[Aussie D]

Watanobbi - Locals claim it has the aboriginal meaning of "bloke with big dick".

 

[suckerforred]

Inglewood - Olive country

 

[bryce]

Dudley - nice little beach south of Newcastle

 

[suckerforred]

Yandilla - Was a town. Does it still count?

 

[Lindommer]

American River, on Kangaroo Island. Why it's named after the Septics, I don't know.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Rockhampton - Famous for the stolen testicles from all the bull statues in town.

 

[Cat_A]

Nindigully - famous for its one pub and a bloody big B&S each year.

 

[Penguin]

Yandina- Home of the Ginger Factory on the Sunshine Coast.

 

[yourmatesam]

Airlie Beach - Ends in H. Fuck I'm sick of places ending in A

 

[bryce]

Hawks Nest - glorious little spot on the mid north coast of NSW. Former holiday spot of John Howard.

 

[matty_k]

Tyndale small town on the South arm of the Clarence a river in between Grafton and Maclean.

I also put out a fire at the petrol station in 2003.

 

[Penguin]

Airlie Beach - Ends in H. Fuck I'm sick of places ending in A

Too bad it's been done twice already.

 

[Penguin]

Eden- Lovely ex whaling town on the Southern NSW coast.