If you have any information about this feature which does not appear on the extract below, please contact the Geographical Names Board's Secretariat with your comments and suggestions.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES REGISTER EXTRACT | |
23rd April 2018 | |
Reference: | 7395 |
Placename: | Bong Bong |
Designation: | Rural Place |
Status: | Assigned 19th December 1969 |
GNB File: | GNB3728 |
LGA: | Wingecarribee |
Approx. AGD66 Lat: | -34 32 00 |
Approx. AGD66 Long: | 150 24 00 |
Approx. GDA94 Lat: | -34 31 54 |
Approx. GDA94 Long: | 150 24 04 |
Topographic Map: | Moss Vale |
1:100000 Map: | Moss Vale 8928 |
Parish: | Mittagong |
County: | Camden |
Description: | A rural place NE of Moss Vale in the vicinity of Wingecarribee River. |
Meaning: | Aboriginal for 'blind or a watercourse lost in a swamp'. (RAHS Journal Vol.1; Prt.8). Also: many watercourses; many frogs. (McCarthy; 1963). |
Origin: | Aboriginal. |
© Geographical Names Board of New South Wales |