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Closeburn
This was the name of a village in Scotland.
Coes Creek
Robert Coe selected 160 acres, 12
September, 1882, on which he grew sugarcane, becoming one of the early
shareholders of the Moreton Central Sugar Mill in Nambour.
Colinton
The Balfours, on taking up land in 1841, named their holding Colinton after their home village on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Colleges Crossing
It seems that George College, after
whom the area is named , also sometimes spelt his name Colledge. He
arrived in Moreton Bay 1849 and settled in this area.
Colmslie
William Caircross named the house he built in 1881,
Colmslie, after an old family estate in Scotland.
Condamine
Allan Cunningham named it
Cunningham's River after Lieutenant T. De La Condamine, an aide to
Governor Darling. He was a man of some influence in Sydney: involved in
the management of the Female Factory at Parramatta, the boys
institution known as Carter's Barracks and in the establishment of the
Australian Subscription Library.
Conondale
Donald Mackenzie named his
station at the headwaters of the Mary River after the River Conon in
Scotland, the district where he was born. The river was known to the
Kabi people at
Numabulla. Andrew Petrie called it the Wide Bay River, but it
came to be officially named the Mary in honour of Lady Mary Fitzroy,
the wife of the Governor.
When the Gympie gold rush started, the track northwards from Brisbane passed the
Durandur station ( near the present Woodford) and then climbed
the range to the Conondale station. It was not long before a road was
marked closer to the coast, but until that happened Conondale was well
known to
travellers on the Gympie track. Several bullock drays overturned and
were destroyed in their attempts to negotiate the range.
Coochiemudlo
To the Coobenpil speaking
members of the
Yuggera, or Jagara, tribe, the most important thing about this island
was its deposit of decomposed igneous rock. This provided them with the
red ochre with which they decorated their bodies at corroboree times.
So it is not surprising then that one of their names for the island was
something that sounded like
Kutchi Mudlo, meaning red stone.
When Matthew Flinders
landed on the eastern side, 19 July, 1799, he simply marked it on his
map as the Sixth Island in the area. The beach were he landed is now
called Norfolk Beach after his sloop the
Norfolk, built on Norfolk island.
Lieutenant Innis of
the 57th Regiment stationed at Moreton Bay carried out exploration in
the southern parts of Moreton Bay, and while some people
continued to refer to the island by its Aboriginal name, others called
it Innis Island. This name appeared on the map (1842) produced as a
result of Robert Dixon's trigonometrical survey of the island. When the
result of the 1885 survey into one acre allotments was published the
anglicized form of the Aboriginal name,
Coochiemudlo, was used. Subsequently it was used in the crown land
sales which began 1888
Coochin
The word seems to have referred to the
colour red in several Aboriginal languages. Coochin Mountain and Creek are
in the Glasshouse region, while the property Coochin Coochin is in the
Fassifern area.
Coolabine
The name for this locality near
Kenilworth is said to indicate the place where koalas live.
Coolangatta
The beach resort on the New South Wales border gets its name from a ship, the
Coolangatta, which was wrecked there, 18 August, 1846. The ship
in its turn got its name from the estate of Alexander Berry on the
South Coast of New South Wales.
Berry, with his business partner
Edward Wollstonecraft, acquired extensive lands on the North Shore of
Sydney Harbour and along the Shoalhaven River. When his brothers and
sisters migrated to New South Wales they joined him on the southern
property which he had named
Coolangatta. The name Berry is perpetuated in the district there today by the name of the nearby town.
Cooloola
The cooloolah is the coastal cypress or
callitris. It is said to be suggested by the sound made by the wind in these trees.
The
coloured sands legend is of a young woman who fell in love with a
spirit called
Yiningie. This spirit represented the rainbow. One day she was
kidnapped and Yiningie gave chase. A fight ensued during which the
abductor threw a giant boomerang at the Rainbow Spirit. It collided
with the cliffs and dissolved into the colours now to be seen in the
sands.
Cooloolabin
Kulla-bin, in the Gubbi Gubbi
language, described this area near Yandina as a koala habitat
Coolum
The town and the beach get their name from the mountain. The Aboriginal people called the mountain
gulum or kulum meaning without or wanting, and it is said that this refers to the fact that the mountain seems to be without a peak to it.
The
first white man to take up land in the area was Walter Hay, who came
from Maryborough by way of Noosaville. He took up land in 1882 around
Coolum Hill.
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