Places

This is a small collection of place names around Kuyani country. Have you been to any of the places listed below?

You may find it interesting that some of these places have names of plants or animals in them.

Arkapa-purrunha

name of a minor ochre mine in the Bopeechee area

Kadnunha

name of a place called Sliding Rock

Kadnya

name of the Frome Creek

Kakalpunha

name of the ancestor who became Mt Termination

Mangu-katanha

'forehead feeling cool', the Mungutena plain around the Watiwarrigana creek where the Mungutena dam is now situated, about 70 Km southwest of William Ck. In the Turkey myth the thirsty young initiates cooled down their forehead while spreading out over this plain.

Mara-madlhuru

name of place , Muloorina waterhole

Papardla

name of a small waterhole and important soakage just down from old Stuart Ck Homestead. This is where the Ancestor Thunpili cut off his child’s head and left it by the soakage.

Pinpa

placename: site of Pimba dam, where the Snake Ancestors Kurkari and Yurkunangku got resin for their spears

Piya-piyanha

Cane-grass Swamp near Pea-Pea Ridge, so named because the Two Snakes travelled through there sucking the nectar from eremophila flowers

Pupityi

name of a place, Bopeechee siding on the old railway line, west of Alberrie Creek. It is close to Wibma-malkara, the 'Dreamtime Initiation Ground'

Thidna-pirri-nha

name of a site close to the old Stuart Creek Homestead,

Wangkiya-nha

name of place: Wangiana

Wilka-pina

name of place: Old Myrtle Springs: 'Big Dog' because in the myth a big dog jumped in there

Yabmalka-nha

name of Leigh Creek Waterhole