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Wagga Wagga Hey


They tell that Wagga Wagga is hence practiced that they named it twice.

They are wrong. The instant Wagga inwards Wagga Wagga is used equally an intensifier. Wagga way 'crow'. So Wagga Wagga way 'many crows'. This reduplication of names is a fairly mutual topic inwards Australian place-names. Another representative is the town of Tiba Tiba, which way 'lots of water'.

The Reduplication Map of Australia is an interactive map of but about i hundred place-names inwards Commonwealth of Australia which are reduplicated names. You tin filter the place-names shown on the map yesteryear the world or yesteryear UTM zone.


Most, if non all, of these reduplicated names come upwards from indigenous languages. If yous are interested inwards what these places expect similar hence yous should convey a expect at Muru View. Muru View superimposes the master indigenous place-names of Australian locations on exceed of Google Maps Street View - inwards 3d!

The application uses place-names used inwards historical surveys from the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia to map the master indigenous place-names of locations inwards New South Wales. It superimposes the place-name labels for each of these locations on exceed of its Google Map's Street View.