Notes on the Origins and Locations of Place Names
Newcastle ~ Lake Macquarie ~ Hunter Valley
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Yaccaba - Called North head by Captain Cook - Port Stephens entrance (Yacabah on Dangar's Map [29]) Yacaabah Head on 1833 map
Yackerboon - Green grass (aboriginal meaning)
Yagaby - district of Liverpool Plains on the Gwydir river. John Hoskinson's station
Yagabi - in the district of Liverpool Plain on the Gwydir river. Eales station.
Yallambie - To dwell to stay (aboriginal meaning). Cessnock district
Yaminginba - Run belonging to Charles Fitzsimmons at Liverpool Plains
Yango - Cessnock district
Yankinkite - Manning River aboriginal name meaning having Reeds (Woodside)
Yarinebah Island - Port Stephens (1826)
Yarundi / Yarrandi - Grant to Stephen Coxen - Upper Hunter
Yarrabung - near Wallis Creek. George Turner's estate in 1840s - see Dangar's map for location [29]
Yarraconill - Estate on Hunter River, Parish Middlehope - - Dangar's map [29]
Yarragee Guest House - Anderson's Hill, Belmont
Yarra Hills - near Rosebrook, Hunter River - Dangar's map [29]
Yarramalong - Place of wild horses. (aboriginal name) Situated in Co. Northumberland near Jillibyjilliby creek. Estate of R. Hill in 1848
Yarraman - district of Liverpool Plains; station of R. Fitzgerald
Yarramanbah - Richard and George Yeomans run on the Liverpool Plains. Later part of the A.A. Co. land
Yarramanbah Creek - Liverpool Plains
Yellow Billy's Cave - Wollombi district
Yellow Rock - near Broke on Wollombi Brook
Yengo National Park - Lower Hunter 40km south of Cessnock
Yerangle - Run at Liverpool Plains belonging to Emanuel Hungerford junr.
Yererung - Henry Dangar's 1828 map. Earlier name for Eraring
Yimmang - Aboriginal name for the Paterson River
Yirannalai - Aboriginal name of a place near Newcastle on the sea beach beneath a high cliff - Threlkeld [21]
Young Wallsend - Edgeworth
Yulgibar - William Ogilvie's run on the Clarence River
Yuroka - five miles below Warana on Liverpool Plains. [40]
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