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Kunghur Creek (CREEK), NSW Details
History
Known locally for many years as Graveyard Creek due to mistaken identification of a Bora Ring as an Aboriginal Burial Ground. Source: Uki & S.A. HS.
Description
A partly perennial stream rising in N slopes of Mount Burrell.It flows generally NNE for about 5 km into the Tweed River at Kunghur.
Meaning
From the Bandjalung-Yugambeh dialect chain word kunga to call out. Source J Allen Dictionary p32 1914.
Origin
Aboriginal/European
Kunghur Creek (CREEK), NSW
| title | Kunghur Creek (CREEK) |
| additional | |
| state | NSW |
| reference | 31737 |
| placename | Kunghur Creek |
| designation | CREEK |
| geographical name | |
| previous names | |
| lga | TWEED |
| description | A partly perennial stream rising in N slopes of Mount Burrell.It flows generally NNE for about 5 km into the Tweed River at Kunghur. |
| meaning | From the Bandjalung-Yugambeh dialect chain word kunga to call out. Source J Allen Dictionary p32 1914. |
| origin | Aboriginal/European |
| history | Known locally for many years as Graveyard Creek due to mistaken identification of a Bora Ring as an Aboriginal Burial Ground. Source: Uki & S.A. HS. |
