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Millamurra Lookout (LOOKOUT), NSW Details
History
Research shows the name in the form `Millamurra Lookout` from 1937. This name was given the status of `variant` when it was replaced by `Minnamurra Lookout` probably on 14 August 1981.
Description
A lookout situated about 0.4 km NE of Echo Point and 1.9 km S by SE of Katoomba Post Office. It is just north of Tallawarra Lookout. (On the second edition of the topographical map these two lookouts were incorrectly shown with Millamurra Lookout being the most southerly).
Meaning
`Many eyes`. (McCarthy F D `New South Wales Aboriginal Place Names and Euphonious Words with their Meanings` 1963)
Origin
Aboriginal.
Millamurra Lookout (LOOKOUT), NSW
| title | Millamurra Lookout (LOOKOUT) |
| additional | |
| state | NSW |
| reference | 37914 |
| placename | Millamurra Lookout |
| designation | LOOKOUT |
| geographical name | |
| previous names | Minnamurra Lookout |
| lga | BLUE MOUNTAINS |
| description | A lookout situated about 0.4 km NE of Echo Point and 1.9 km S by SE of Katoomba Post Office. It is just north of Tallawarra Lookout. (On the second edition of the topographical map these two lookouts were incorrectly shown with Millamurra Lookout being the most southerly). |
| meaning | `Many eyes`. (McCarthy F D `New South Wales Aboriginal Place Names and Euphonious Words with their Meanings` 1963) |
| origin | Aboriginal. |
| history | Research shows the name in the form `Millamurra Lookout` from 1937. This name was given the status of `variant` when it was replaced by `Minnamurra Lookout` probably on 14 August 1981. |
