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What is a Warrajah?

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Subject: What is a Warrajah?
From: "Tony Russell" <>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:31:06 +1030
A Warrajah is the pot one uses when we bring Warratahs indoors.

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> Interesting thoughts. In the bushland near Canberra is a "Condor 
> Creek". Hard to imagine where that one came from and why someone would

> choose vulture-like US birds as a name. Though there is surely many 
> other foreign animal names in Australian localities (Badger Creek near

> Healesville for example). And then we have a suburb Conder, named 
> after the painter Charles Conder and you see it frequently in the 
> local newspapers and elsewhere and pronounced by people as "Condor". 
> Crazy really. Maybe it is due to spell checkers.
>
> Philip

  The Conder isn't a suburb (in Melbourne any rate) but a street in
Heidelberg - overlooking the Heidelberg part of the Yarra Valley.
Suitable for the painter. Other streets nearby commemorate other members
of the Heidelberg School.

  But may I point out that the Badger of Badger Creek isn't the European
creature but an old name for the Wombat.

 Victoria has several Pheasant creeks - all refer to the Lyrebird as
Native Pheasant. There are probably other examples of now diused animal
names fossilised in place names but I can't think of any more just now.

Anthea Fleming






   Avocet
>   Bittern
>   Brogla
>   Corella
>   Dove
>   Egret
>   Gannet
>   Grebe
>   Harrier
>   Ibis
>   Kingfisher
>   Kookaburra
>   Landrail
>   Lorikeet
>   Lyre (?)
>   Nightjar
>   Oriole
>   Osprey
>   Pipit
>   Plover
>   Prion
>   Quail
>   Robin
>   Rosella
>   Rufous (?)
>   Sanderling
>   Sandpiper
>   Shearwater
>   Sheldrake  (?)
>   Sitella
>   Skua
>   Spoonbill
>   Turnstone
>   Warrajah
>   Weebill
>   Weeroo
>   Whimbrel
>   Widgeon
>
>   An impressive lineup - with a couple of strange choices. Maybe
Google
>   Maps isn't 100% accurate.
>   I suppose the other non-bird names were existing ones as they seem
to
>   apply to thoroughfares.
>   Across the way there are some plants represented: Cherrytree,
Caraway,
>   Orixia, Cotoneaster, Privet. A lot better than naming them after
dodgy
>   local politicians or their children :-)
>
>   Have a very happy and safe New Year everyone
>
>
>   Russell Woodford
>
>   Birding-Aus List Owner
>   
>   Geelong   Victoria   Australia
>   http://www.birding-aus.org
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>
>   On 31/12/2008, at 1:36 PM, Gemfyre wrote:
>
>   > I've recently moved house.  The area where we live has many roads
>   > named after birds (how lovely - we live on Widgeon ourselves -
which
>   > is a type of duck).
>   >
>   > A street nearby is called "Warrajah".  Is this a bird related
name?
>   > A Google search doesn't bring up much.
>   >
>   > Belinda
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