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Origin of place names.
By FJWatson

Wolvi. (i as in wine)

A mountain range and a farming centre.

From the Kabi word wolvai, or wolbai, a young kangaroo at the
stage of growth when it can gent out and in its mother's pouch.

This name is, no doubt, the origin of wallaby the white man's
name for the lesser kangaroos.

Kin Kin.
A dairying and Banana growing centre about 10 miles north east of
Cooran railway station.

The origin of this place name has been the subject of much
discussion. It is probably derived from the native words
ka-uin kauin (ka-ooin ka-ooin), a variant or abbreviation of
kutchin kutchin, meaning red, Kin Kin is in redsoil country
which is drained by Kin Kin, otherwise Kutchin, Creek.

Mount Kanagin, otherwise the Black Gin Mountain, situated near
Theebine Railway Station. The name is derived from kanigan,
meaning a young aboriginal woman, literally it meanins a daughter,
feminine of the Kabi word kani, a son.

Kanyan. A railway station, named from the mountain nearby,
Mount Kanaghan.

Kanighan. A farming centre near to and East of Mount Kanaghan,
from which the same is derived.

Gootchie. A Railway Station on the N.C.Railway.
Named from the grazing holding nearby, Gutchy, which was
named from the Kabi word gutchi, the ground iguana.

Bauple. (sometimes spelled Bopple). A mountain near Tiaro.
The name is derived from the Kabi word bopval (as near as a
white man can pronounce it). Bopval is the native name of the
frilled lizard. A legend of this mountain is that it was
once inhabited by a spirit in the form of a frightful old woman
who prevented anyone one from going to the top of the mountain.

(If her appearance was anything like the Frilled lizard with
open mouth, frill expanded and on its hind legs she must indeed
have been frightful.
Perhaps that is how the mount got its name).