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Woolloomooloo = Aboriginal Pronunciation
Woollooh-Moollooh. A whirlpool or
whirlwind. Used by tribes in early
days of settlement to denote the
windmills along the hights of Woolloomooloo
At South Brisbane Wooloongabba is
from Woolloon whirling around &
Capemm water. Correctly Woolooncapemm.
The words Woolooncapemm was the aboriginal
name of a creek that ran parallel to the
old Ipswich Road & through Wooloongabba.
It was a series of circular or partly circular clay
waterholes only connected in wet weather. When
rain fell the water whirled around in the
waterholes before running into the next hole.
The above is from records of the late Archibald Meston