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Queensland Place names and Their Meanings.

[Taringa].[crossed] From tarau-nga, meaning stoney. Said to
be an aboriginal name for a quarry in the vicinity.
From Tarau, loose stones.

[Purga]. [crossed] No information on this name.

[Tarampa].[crossed]⁽¹⁾ From tarum ,meaning wild lime tree,and pa
or ba,place of. Of aboriginal origin.

[Mooloolah]. Aboriginal term for place of black snakes;
from mooloo,meaning black or dusky; also native name
for the black snake.

[Eudlo].⁽²⁾ Meaning eels. From yooloo,or, yoodloo,meaning eels.

[Woombye]. From wombai ,meaning the black myrtle tree.

This word also means tomahawk handle,probably owing to
this pliable wood being used to make the cleft handles of
stone axes.

[Nambour]. Is not the kurrajong tree. It is the native name
for the ti-tree and its bark. One authority, a white
man,has stated that the word is the native name of the
read flowered ti-tree, but an aboriginal has informed me
that it is the white flowered ti-tree and that the native
name of the red-flowered ti-tree is dibbing.

[Maroochydore]. Meaning, place of black swans. From
mooroo⁽³⁾-cochee-dya, abbreviated from Mooroo-kootchee-dya,
meaning place of black swans, from mooroo, beak or bill (or
nose-) and dya,country or place. The native name of the
black swan ,in English, is the Red Bill. (of [Yaguabul?] origin)

[Beerwah]. The tallest of the [Glass House Mountains] group.

The meaning of the word is "up in the Sky". It is derived
from the native words Birra, the sky,and Wa, an aboriginal
abbreviation of the word wandum, meaning to climb or go
upwards.

[Beerburrum]. ⁽¹⁾ [Tom Petrie] has given the meaning of this name
as "parrot". It is probably derived from "pir"⁽¹⁾ the green
leek parrot. I am inclined to the opinion is that the whole
word means Green leek parrot's back.

[Bunderim]. Butharum, The kabi native name of the honey-
suckle tree,( Banksia latifolia).