Strangest Town names in Australia

FANCY getting stranded in Dismal Swamp, or making a stopover in Tittybong? How about spending a night in Pussycat Flat, or straining to reach Bust-Me-Gall Hill? Well the good news is you won't have to travel far to visit any of these places. These are just some of the quirky, unique and downright unusual towns in Australia.

There's the notoriously dangerous Hell's Gates on the West Coast of Tasmania, and Xantippe in Western Australia, the only town in the country starting with an X.

For an action-packed escape you might want to stop by Diehard in New South Wales - you may even bump into  Bruce Willis while you're there.

If you're hungry, amble down to the Territory's Tortilla Flats, Tasmania's Egg and Bacon Bay or Milkshake Hills.

Repetition is also a regular feature in town titles, with Wagga Wagga, Bong Bong, Grong Grong, Walla Walla and Goonoo Goonoo all in NSW, Bubble Bubble Springs in the Northern Territory, and the likes of Vite Vite in Victoria.

You can't go past some of the tongue-twisting delights like Jimcumbilly in NSW, D'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tassie, Ubobo in Queensland and Victoria's Manangatang and Upotipotpon.
Tourism New South Wale's Lauren O'Neil says: "Woolloomooloo seems to catch everyone, and you'll find plenty of British backpackers looking for 'Cooh-gee', instead of 'Cudg-gee'.

If symbolism is your thing, why not check out Uki in NSW, which means 'fern with edible roots' in the Aboriginal dialect of the area, Ozenkadnook in South Australia, which means 'very fat kangaroo', or NSW's Binnaway, which is derived from a word meaning 'peppermint tree wollybutt'.
Or you could just resort to toilet humour with the likes of Dunnedoo, Diapur, Mount Buggery, Burrumbuttock, Poowong and Fannie Bay.

According to Tourism Tasmania's Marianne Miles, Break-Me-Neck Hill "was named after an exclamation uttered by a wagoner during his first experience of the hill.”

The origin of the name of the Northern Territory's Humpty Doo is unknown, but Tourism Northern Territory's Liz McCouaig has three theories: that it's from an Aboriginal term 'Umdidu', which meant a popular resting place; from "a colloquialism to describe everything done wrong or upside down"; or that it's derived from the term "umpty", which was "the Army slang term used for the dash when reading Morse Code".

(courtesy of Escape.com.au)