Aussie Towns Trivia

[Schadenfreude]

Nambour - the big pineapple is near there.

 

[Jnor]

Rooty Hill - famous for its hilarious name and proximity to also topographically significant Mount Druitt

 

[spectator]

Longreach - the original home of Qantas and The Flying Doctor service.

 

[Swat]

Holbrook - 300 kms from the coast and yet has a submarine smack bang in the center of the town. Also once named Germanton (German Town)... no points as to guessing why they changed the name

 

[Brumby Jack]

Goulburn - home to a fruit company that made our dual olympic winning rowing team do this

Incorrect. Goulburn Valley is in Victoria. Goulburn is in NSW and home to the Big Merino, nicknamed 'Rambo'. And also home to hitch hiker picker upperer extraordinaire Ivan Milat.

 

[Swat]

Way to drop a knowledge bomb BJ...

 

[Brumby Jack]

It's more for our foreign audience.
And the fact that I've seen it 100+ times on the way to/from Sydney.

 

[mark_s]

Kempsey, home of the worst traffic jams in NSW plus home to the akubra

 

[suckerforred]

Longreach - the original home of Qantas and The Flying Doctor service.

Correction - RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) started in Cloncurry. And the arguement on Qantas could rage on for years.

Home to the Stockman's Hall of Fame though.

 

[suckerforred]

Yarraman - Most people are unlikely to know where it is.

 

[Swat]

Neutral Bay - Not actually neutral, full of dickheads

 

[Brumby Jack]

Iron Knob South Australia. No further comment.

 

[Swat]

There's also a bald knob, in queensland maybe?

EDIT: Where is alan jones from?

 

[spectator]

Correction - RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) started in Cloncurry. And the arguement on Qantas could rage on for years.

Home to the Stockman's Hall of Fame though.

I'll go with the Hall of Fame. I accept that my original reference might be subject to debate but I couldn't wait for someone to post a town ending in W (winton) or Y (Cloncurry).

 

[suckerforred]

I'll go with the Hall of Fame. I accept that my original reference might be subject to debate but I couldn't wait for someone to post a town ending in W (winton) or Y (Cloncurry).

Guessing you mean C (Cloncurry)

 

[suckerforred]

And back on track -

Yarra Valley - Home to Domain Chandon in Aust (Don't knock it until you have been to Sunday School.)

(Yourmatesam - what do we do when we run out of Y's?)

 

[spectator]

Guessing you mean C (Cloncurry)

Yep...hopeless arent I?

 

[suckerforred]

Yep...hopeless arent I?

Should I ask where you are from?

 

[Swat]

Yamba - unfortunate subject of a John Williamson song...

 

[spectator]

Yatalah - famous for its pies.