Place Names of South-East Queensland

  

 

Kin Kin

The name Kin Kin is derived from the Aboriginal kauin kauin  meaning red soil.  The school was previously called Bellbird Creek Flat School. The creek was formerly King King Creek.

Kinleymore

This district was named after old residents. 

Kippa-Ring

A kippa-ring is more widely known as a bora ring, but, using the more local dialect, the name came to be used of the Redcliffe suburb where one of these major centres for Aboriginal ceremony was located. This kippa-ring actually consisted of two rings about 300 metres apart joined by a pathway. The name was adopted by the Queensland Place Names Board, 12 October, 1959.  


Kirra

Kirra was Aboriginal for boomerang. The railway station was so named by the Railway Department in 1932. 

Kleinton

Named after an early German migrant by the name of Klein.

Kolan

Aboriginal for very good.

Kondalilla

Appropriately the name for these falls in the Aborginal language means sound of rushing waters. When they were part of Skene's property they were known as Skene's Falls, but after his request that the Home Secretary's Department declare the 80 acres of his land that included the falls a reserve, they were, for a time,  called Bon Accord Falls. 

Koongalba

Meaning place of clean water, it was the Aboriginal name for the area between the North and South Maroochy Rivers where Yandina is now situated.

Kooralbyn

The Aboriginal name means the place of the copperhead snake. It was the name given to the pastoral property owned in turn by William Barker, John Haygarth, the Bundock family and the Gordon family. 

Kulangoor

Literally the name means good like: kalang meaning good and gnur meaning like. Used to be part of the Maroochy Plains Cattle Run and was opened up for closer settlement in the 1890s.

Kulpi

In its original Aboriginal usage, locals claim kulpi was used for charred logs, but the Queensland Railways says that the name refers to timber from the box tree.  It was given this name when the railway came through. The positioning of the railway meant the demise of  the nearby township of Evergreen 

Kuluin

This was the local Aboriginal name for the black swan.  Andrew Petrie borrowed foreign Aboriginal words in naming the Maroochy River after the black swans there. 

Kumbia

From the Aboriginal term for a small vine growing in the forest.

Kunda Park

The name is believed to come from an Aboriginal language where it could have meant a dog or a decorated digging stick.

Kuraby

The name adopted by the Railway Department in 1885 was the name of a creek in the area. It was the Aboriginal word for a small creek. 

Kureelpa

In the Aboriginal language of Yugurabul,  kuril-ba meant place of mice or rats.

Kurilpa

This Aboriginal name for the area later known as West End in Brisbane was Kurilpa, place of rats or mice.

Kurwongba

The Aboriginal name for the creek which Europeans called Sideling Creek was revived by the Queensland Place Names Board, 13 August, 1959, when it was given to the lake formed by the dam on that creek. 


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