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[Amamoor]. I do not know the meaning of this name but I have been
informed that it is generally miss-pronounced, that the accent
should be on the second syllable and that it referred to a
water-hole at the place. I think that possibly it may be
Amangoor but,being without personal knowledge of the place,
I would not venture to express a meaning for the name.

[Kandanga]. Regarding this name,I have heard the story but I
cannot recollect who was the narrator,that in early days
a resident had the name of being stingy in his allowance
of rations to native employees, and that they called him
Hungry-fellow. Some credence is lent to the story but
the fact that the word kandau-ngur literally means "state of
being hungry".

[Ban Ban]. Name is derived from "ban" meaning "grass.

The reduplication of the word "ban" implies plentitude of
grass

[Gigoomgan]. Place of cockatoos, derived from the Kabi word
"gigoom" meaning the white cockatoo.

[Barambah]. An old resident of the [Burnett] once gave me the
of this name as place of bopple-nut trees, from"barram" the
bopple nut, but as no such trees grow within very many miles of
the place I doubt if the interpretation is correct.

Mr. [Morrison], the first superintendent at the Aboriginal
settlement at [Barambah] (now called [Cherbourg]) once informed me that
the natives told him that the name meant "Windy Place". In
that case the name is a slight corruption of the Kabi word
"buranba" meaning place of wind, from the word buran, "wind
and 'ba" indicating "place of".

[Degilbo]. Meaning"stones standing up"originating from the
fact that in [Degilbo Creek] there was a rock-walled water-hole
called by the blacks by this name" The word is derived from
the Wakka words dugil "stones" and "bo" an abbreviation of
"boobai" meaning "to stand".

[FJW}