Why Is Tasmania Full Of Weird & Rude Names?

What are some of your favourite weird Tasmanian names?

Okay a real life Tasmanian here, let me set the facts straight, We give things silly names because we can. Funny is funny and our sense of humor hasn't really changed.

Tasmanian here. I barely knew half of the names on the map, most of them belong to uninhabited/tiny/remote/ places. Thanks for the video!

Tasmanian here with some etymology on these names for you! Eggs and Bacon Bay - Named after the egg-and-bacon flower that grows here Wombat Flat - its flat, it has wombats Blubber Head - It was used for whaling Mouldy Hole - Unknown. Probably because its wet Little Hell -Theres actually 5 places called Little Hell in Tasmania. Convicts didn't like living here, and a lot of them are unpleasantly steep or dark. Shallow Bottom Point - its a bay that a shallow bottom Chuckle Head - I can't find any info on this, its a "head" (or prominent sticking out bit of land on an island). Government records advise it was suggested by the Dennes family of Bruny and origin is unknown. Bottom Lagoon - Unknown origin Isle of the Dead - its where the convict station at port arthur buried its dead. Its incredibly sad to visit, they do boat cruises that pass by while they talk about the history. Sleeping Beauty - Mount Wellington when viewed from here looks like a lady sleeping Hellfire Bluff - The cliffs here are made of orange - red sandstone. Bust Me Gull Hill - Its a very steep hill. Little Dismal - There is also Mount Dismal and Dismal Swamp. They're as they sound, Dismal. Break Me Neck Hill - Its a very steel hill. There is a story someone once fell and broke their neck here but its unconfirmed. The Butts - Unknown, but its a hill, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was named for exactly why it sounds. Breasted Sugarloaf - Sugarloaf is an old fashioned word for very tall but rounded a hill. Theres at least 3 Sugarloaf locations in Tasmania. Black Sugarloaf (racist) was renamed to Biralee, and theres also two Sugarloaf Roads Secret Hole - I can't find any record of this, though its most likely just a cave. See the entry for Dangerous Hole Pisspot Creek - This name was rejected by the government, and I have no clue of its origin, so its not actually a place in Tasmania. Bottom Hole - Its one of 3 large lakes, which are called unoriginally Top Hole, Middle Hole and Bottom Hole. Guys Dirty Hole - Named after a man called Guy Ransom, originally called Old Guys Dirty Hole but renamed after they decided that was unfortunate Funny Knob Creek - Unknown Horrible Hollow Gully - Originally called John Fitzgerald Creek. Renamed, unknown reasons. Though its pretty much in the middle of no where, so you can guess its descriptive Granny's Gut - This seems to have been made up? There are no records of its existence. Bottom Fancy - Unknown origin, though it was rejected and isn't an official place. Tinkle Creek - It makes a tinkling sound, I'd guess ,but no records recorded Knut Bush Creek - Possibly named after Knut Dahl, the explorer? Unknown. Danish pronounciation, as in ker-nut. Ding Dong Rainforest - Unknown. It was named by suggestion of a foresting company, someone having a laugh I guess. Prickly Bottom - Its a "bottom", the floor of a valley. Its probably prickly. Ranga - Aboriginal word meaning "Knee". Its a kinda knee shaped bend in the island of Cape Barren. Big Gulch - Its a big gulch Nowhere Else - Named after the Road, Nowhere Else Road. When building roads, roads therefore tended to be named after the property owners by the road gangs. The road in question, being a link road, could not be named after anyone hence the term Nowhere Else Road and the subsequent locality name. Paradise - Religious evangelists settled this area, Calvinist's in particular, so its kinda like Tasmania's utah. Dangerous Hole - Its a cave, and its dangerous. Theres so many of these people got sick of naming them, hence they have names like "Rubbish Heap Cave", "Glow-worm cave", "Sassafras Cave" and "Sassafras II Cave" Cummings Head - Cummings is a British surname. Penguin - It has penguins. See also Cygnet, which has Cygnets (baby swans), Cooee - Cooee is an indigenous word meaning something like "come to me". There was a move in the mid 19th century to name things in Tasmanian Aboriginal to preserve the language as it went extinct. Misery Knob - "Knob" is an old word for a hill. Its also miserable. Promised Land - Calvinist evangelists settled here on a religious pilgrimage. Tittie Gee Creek - Unknown, though it was called Trial Creek before this. Big Bush - its a big area of bush Stinkhole - It stinks, most likely. Crack Pot - This is actually the name of a tourist trap, a miniature village called "Lower Crackpot", built by the local mayor. Crack Pot means an eccentric person, usually an old man, so he was having a rib at himself. Thrush Forest - Thrush are a type of bird. The Never Never -Never Never is an old poetic name for an uninhabited, remote place in Australia from the poem Where the Dead Men Lie. Butt of Liberty - Briefly renamed to the Butt, then renamed back. Unknown. Dunnys Dam - Its a dam, named after a man called Dunny. Snag Point - Presumably due to snagging your fishing lines on the rocky seabed. Mossy Nipple Bend- A minor, grassy hill. The name was rejected, so it isn't official. Officers Bottom- Bottom is the floor of a valley. This is quite a lovely grassy area, so probably granted to an officer. Now the town of Wayatinah. Broad Bottom- A wide valley floor Long Bottom - A long valley floor Deep Thought - A cave. To quote the official record "Awesome Wells and Deep Thought are both caves not mountains. Noted that Anakananda and Kellar Cellar were correct, but sometimes cave names are so weird that it is difficult to tell what they are." Awesome Wells - See above. The Dungeon - Theres actually two places in Tasmania called The Dungeon, no where near each other. Both are caves. Humungus Hole - Cave. Its big. Beggary Bumps - Originally called Buggery Bumps by the Melbourne University Walking Club. Naming board changed it to be more clean. You get the idea why the ycalled it that. Tonguers Point - Originally Hixon Point, renamed in 1966. It seems to be some kind of slang but I don't have access to the book the official record refers to for a definition. Platypus Point - it has platypus Goon Moor - Named after Ray Goon, a pilot. High Round Mountain - Its high, round and a mountain. Laughing Creek - Unknown. The Boomerang - Its a hill shaped like a Boomerang. Big Trumpeter Bay - Big Trumpeter (a type of fish) could be caught here. Ooze Lake - Its a very shallow, brown lake filled with moss and algae. Snug - Its a lovely little town, named for how extremely pleasant its location is. Except for that time it burned down. Never heard of the idea that its about boats, in fact, its got a pretty massive bay. Satan's Lair - No official record, so probably a cave. Deep Bottom - Its a deep valley Round Bottom - Its a round valley The Dump - Unknown origin. Pensioners Bush - This area was settled by Irish soldiers who couldn't return to ireland at the end of their service due to the potato famine, so they were given this land as their pensioner. Boomers Bottom - Boomer is slang for a kangaroo, this area has a lot of them. No No Hole - This no longer has this name, It was actually No No's Hole, to quote an author "... a mob of [racial slur] who had committed a murder on the property sought refuge there when an avenging party of whites were on their heels. They cried 'No, No,' and kept diving under the water for safety, but were all shot." Knockup - Actually Knock-up Hill, knock-up is a Victorian slang for injury (see: knocked-around today). It was considered one of the most dangerous parts of the road to north-east Tasmania at the time.

As a Tasmanian I can confirm we are weird

I live in Tasmania and I never really considered that some of these places have weird names.

The reason the odd names are so frequent is because we Aussies like taking the piss, aka cracking jokes and making fun of things (in a good way).

What happens when places are named by those who don't want to be there? Answer: Tasmania.

If Boaty McBoatface has told us anything it’s the general public is the best at naming things. When I saw the name of the video I had the same theory lingering in the back of my mind

Ah Tasmanian devil a cute, feisty creation of mine

I grew up in a town called boat harbour, it took me 14 years to realise how dumb a name that was, what other types of harbours are there?

Snug is not a weird name! You take that back you!

How many weird names do you want? Tasmania: Yes

The Apple Isle was a tourism marketing thing i believe. The phrase i think was on our car number plates for a while, that is usually a dead giveaway.

In Australia “map of Tasmania” means your pubic hair.

I live in Tasmania, and did acid in Snug. Tassie is sick

0:29 it’s pronounced like bond-eye

I'm a Tasweigan and was born here in Tasmania. Tasmania is called the apple isle because we grow a shitload of apples, you must have some pretty strange looking apples if you think Tasmania looks like an apple. One of the best town names we have is Forcett, pronounced force-it, we are just waiting for some legend to open a pub there and call it the Forcett inn. A lot of these strange names probably come from our blue sense of humor, we like a joke that pushes the boundaries, maybe our convict past has a lot to do with that.

Oh my god. First video I’ve ever seen dedicated to Tasmania. Cheers for that. TASMANIA REPRESENT ✊🏻😎

Maybe they also did it out of spite, as they were sent there as punishment