Place Names

Aqua Point

Headland opposite Murramarang Island

Armstrong Forest

Located to the north of Milton, early farming area from mid 1860s

Bannisters Head

Located between Mollymook and Narrawallee.

Bawley Point

Aboriginal meaning: Brown Snake

Bendalong

Berringer Lake

Part of Lake Conjola (north), west of Manyana.

Brimbamala

Old gold mine near Brooman

Boat Harbour

Old name for Harbour at Ulladulla, still in use as late as 1890s

Boyne Creek

Original Pigeon House Creek. Covers Morton and Kingamans areas, located west of Burrill Lake.

Brooman

Brush Island

Mit Island off the Bawley Point and Murramarang area. Original called Mooroomoorang Island.

Budawang

The tribal area of Budawang is from Conjola in the north, Lake George in the West and the Moruya (Deua) River in the south.

Budawang Ranges

Burrill Lake

1828: Surveyor Thomas Florence Bhurril and Burrill Lake
The aboriginal name for the area was Burrill which means wallaby.

Chinamans Island

Lake Conjola

Colliers Beach

1828: Florence Flint Point, Named for Uriah Collier who owned the surronding lands.

Conjola

Aboriginal name: Cundjuhrong
Original name: Cunjurong Lake.

Conjola Park

Cunjurong and West Conjola

Croobyar

Established by Alexander Macleay in 1828, purchased by David Warden in 1849.
Other spellings include Croobear.
Aboriginal meaning: Place of Possums.

Crampton Island

Island near the mounth of Lake Tabourie

Cunjurong Point - Lake

See Conjola

Dolphin Point

Southern headland of Burrill Lake

Durras North

Located within the Murramarang National Park, on the southern boundary of the City of Shoalhaven.
1828 Survey: Hoodle - Durras water (salt lagoon). Appeared on Larmers Road map in 1840.

East Milton

General area of the site of the old Hotel and Macarthurs Store (Today the Rainbow Pie Shop), George Knight's "Mill Town" (now Shoalhaven Anglican School).

Fishermans Paradise

Frogs Hollow

Sports grounds Marton Porter Drice Milton

Green Island

Jones Beach

Killarney Point

Lake Conjola

Kings Point

Named after the King Family who settled there in the early 1860s also known as Almond Place.

Koorbrua Beach

Kioloa side of Murramarang Beach, where Captain Cook in 1770 sighted Aboriginals.

Kioloa

Kingaman

Aboriginal name: Meeting Place

Lake Conjola

Aboriginal name: Cundjuhrong
Landmarks and Bays - Killarney Point, Chinamans Island, Green Island, Berringer Lake.

Lake Tabourie

1828: Florence Toubouree

Lake Willinga

Lighthouse Wall

Little Forest

Lobster Jacks

Manyana

Original called Redhead

Matron Porter Drive

Named after Matron Gwen Porter of Milton Hospital

Meroo and Meroo Lake

Aboriginal name: Mheroo

Merry Beach

Named by the Walker Family as Aunt Mary's beach, eventually became a camping area and Stan Bogle changed the name to Merry Beach. Located south of Kioloa.

Millards Cottage (pdf)

Millards Creek

The Millard brothers established a tannery on the northern bank of the creek and became know as Millards Creek from 1854.

Milton

Established as private township in 1860, not recognised as a individual town until 1899. Originally called "The Settlement"

John Booth purchased 80 acres of land from the first settler Joseph Whatman, and he subdivided the property into the present township of Milton.

Mimosa

West Milton, farming land located at the foot of Pigeon House Mountain.

Mollymook and Mollymook Beach

Mollymook began as farming area back in 1860 as part of Ulladulla. The Mitchell family owned a farm called Molly Moke. Named possible after the Mollymoke Albatross.

Morton

Murramarang

Murre-murrang

Narrawallee and Narrawallee Inlet

Nurrawerree - Narra Warra

Pebbly Beach

Pigeon House

Named by Captain Cook in 1770 as Pigeon House Hill. Aboriginal name is Didhol, meaning Big Mountain. 1828 recorded as Dithol by Surveyor Thomas Florence. Some early survey maps give spelling as Diddel, there is Did Dell Sts both north and south of Ulladulla Harbour.

Pretty Beach

Preservation Rock

Southern mouth of Narrawallee inlet

Racecourse Beach

Site of the old Racecourse from the 1860s, south of Ulladulla.

Redhead

See Manyana also known as Bendalong Head

Rennies Beach

Just south of Ulladulla. great surfing beach named after Alexander Rennie

Sandridge

Cemetery at Mollymook opened 1893

Shallow Crossing

Slaughterhouse

Smart's Flat

Springfield

Stokes Island

Island off Termeil

Stoney Hill

Sullivan's Reef

Bombora just outside Ulladulla Habour known as the Ulladulla bommie. It is not known who Sullivan was, but was noted on 1871 survey of Ulladulla.

Tabourie Island

also known as Crampton Island. 1834 recorded as Tobooree Island

Teal Creek

Mollymook Beach 1828 spelt as Teal for the Teal ducks

Termeil

1828: Florence Turmeil. Other early spelling include Turmeel.

Terra Bona Creek

Head Water of Burrill Lake

The Castle

Aboriginal name: Cooyoyo as recorded by Surveyor Rusdent in 1828 whilst Florence call the Castle Pompey's Pillar or the false Pigeon House.

The Settlement

See Milton

The Vale

Area boundaries of Church, St Vincent and Camden (North) Streets

Top of the Town

Top of the Town shopping complex on southern hill on outskirts of Ulladulla.

Tuckermans

Ulladulla

Ulladulla was called Boat Harbour by the earliest settlers.

1828: Florence Woollahderrah - Wasp Harbour
1828: Kendall Nulladolla
1828: Hoddle Ulladulla because it was thought to sound like the aboriginal name, 'Woolahderrah'.
Wooladoorah: Safe Harbour (Frank McCaffrey Diaries 1914)

Wandiawandian - Wandandian

The home of the lost lovers (Frank McCaffrey Diaries 1914). Aboriginal area of Wandrawandian People.

Its name comes from the word still used in the Parish of Wandrawandian, which according to older residents has an aboriginal meaning of 'home of lost lovers'.

Wardens Head - Ulladulla Lighthouse

Named after pioneer Shipwights brothers David and James Warden. In 1828 was called Long Nose Point.

Washburton

Wason St

Ulladulla and Milton - Name after William Wason Hood

Washerwoman's Beach

Willinga

1828: Mherrhingo

West Ulladulla

Location of sporting complex at the end of Camden St (South) Ulladulla

Woodburn

Woodstock and Woolomolan

Aboriginal name: Woolomolan The place of snakes
1841: William Wason Hood
1863: Northern portion sold to William Walter Ewin - today as we know the Woodstock area.

Yackungarrah Creek

Yadboro

Yatte Yattah

Aboriginal name: Two waterfalls

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