Wahroonga: from an Aboriginal word meaning "our home". Wallumatta Bay: The name of an Aboriginal tribe living in this vicinity on the north side of Parramatta River. Bennelong, who was befriended by Gov.
Warrane, for example, is the original Gadigal name for Sydney Cove.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of our land – Australia. The Gadigal of the Eora Nation are the traditional custodians of this place we now call Sydney.
"Wiradjuri (NSW)".
Eora is also commonly used for Sydney. For northern Sydney the term Guringai has been used, however, it was originally invented by a researcher in 1892 for this area and there is a Gringai clan in the Barrington River, Glouchester area who are requesting Sydneysiders to stop using their name.
The Sydney Language is the name given to the Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken in the greater Sydney area, comprising Dharug and Eora. The names Dharug and Eora were given by linguists to refer to the inland and coastal dialects of the language.
“Bondi” or “Boondi” is an aboriginal word meaning “water breaking over rocks” or “noise of water breaking over rocks." The Gadigal, who witnessed the arrival of the First Fleet, recorded their impressions of the Europeans by engraving a fully rigged ship at Bellevue Hill just outside Waverley.
Taronga is an Aboriginal word meaning beautiful view.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
The settlement itself later became known as Sydney Town. Lord Sydney, aka Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (24 January 1732 – 30 June 1800) was a prominent politician yet never visited Australia.
Welcome to the City of Melbourne. Wominjeka / Womindjeka means 'welcome' in the Woi-wurrung language of the Wurundjeri people and Boon Wurrung language of the Bunurong people of the Eastern Kulin.
The largest populations live in the western suburbs and the NSW Central Coast. Among Sydney's local council areas, Penrith has the biggest Indigenous population, with 9500 people, or 4.8 per cent of the total identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
The Cadigal, also spelled as Gadigal and Caddiegal, are a group of Indigenous people whose traditional lands are located in Gadi, on Eora country, the location of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The name Coogee is derived from the Aboriginal word 'koojah' which means 'bad smell' or a 'stinking place'. In 1950 the anthropologist Frederick McCarthy gave alternative spellings as 'Kuji' and 'Kudji' meaning 'bad generally; stinking; a bad smell'.
More than just the name of a city in Australia, Sydney is a classically gender-neutral name. From groundbreaking African-American actor, Sidney Poitier to the badass main character from Alias, Sydney is a name with serious star power.
The City's flag includes the shield from the Arms granted by the College of Arms in London on 30 July 1908. Sydney has its own official flower – the Banksia ericifolia was officially adopted in 1992 as part of the sesqui celebrations of Council, serving as a symbol of Australia's oldest city.
Budyeri kamaru means Hello in the Gadigal language, the traditional custodians of the land on which the Sydney CBD is built. Gadigal country is part of the Eora Nation from Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), the Parramatta River and the coast.
Koa: Koa means 'crow' in the Kaurna language of Adelaide.
Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men.
She now says 'yaama' (not 'yah, man' in a Jamaican accent). It means hello in Gamilaroi, which is the language of her people in Northern New South Wales.
The name Yass is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal word 'Yharr', meaning 'running water'. Traditionally inhabited by the Aboriginal Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri tribes, the region features many areas of Aboriginal cultural significance, including Oak Hill, the Hollywood Mission and Hattons Corner.
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The male given name has been in use since the 18th century, and the female from the 20th. The spelling Sydney is more common for the female given name.
Sydney is named after Lord Sydney, who was British home secretary when Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet arrived in January 1788. In a letter, Phillip described the colony in Sydney Cove as having “the finest harbour in the world” in which “a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security”.