Australia - Can Anyone Identify These Placenames?

LOL. Thanks, Al!

I am just playing, practising....

On page 7 your BENTLEIGH S.E.14 VIC

1.5Km North of Moorabbin
Replaced Bentleigh West as a PO on 9/1/1928


Type=20A
BENTLEIGH S.E.14 VIC
Arc Size Parameter 4.5 , 4
Date Font = LDL (Large Dateline)
Usage 20th June 1930 until 10th January 1967
Rarity Factor = "C" = Common.


Although late usage doesn't support hammer usage
it was in 1936 that the Vic government changed from the single
"VIC" usage to "VIC AUST"

Thanks for the info, Rod. It seems you now enjoy access to a very good source of information about Victorian datestamps.

Here's two difficult ones that you might enjoy exercising your detective skills on!

The first one is a placename ending in 'ARBOR.' The only such placename in Australia would seem to be Nullarbor, which a very small place in South Australia. There was a post office located there at some stage, but the PPA list gives no information about it. Also, there wouldn't be enough letters in "NULL' to be symmetrical, so the missing part of the placename possibly has 5 letters. Are there any other possibilities, I wonder?



I thought that this one was 'BELUBULA' in NSW, but the first visible letter appears to be a 'B' not an 'L.' meaning that it might be some other place. Is there an Australian placename ending in 'BUBULA'?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

For the first, how about 'SCARBOROUGH'? For the second, would "CURRRABUBULA' fit?

Thanks for the suggestions, tony. As you can see the dateline on the first stamp, it's obvious that it wouldn't be Scarborough unless some other word preceded it. The possibilities are North, South and East - all in WA.

Currabubula seems correct - although it wouldn't be exactly symmetrical.

I wonder how you came up with those suggestions so quickly! Do you have a master list of Australian placenames at your disposal?

No master list, just inspiration, I guess

Are you just as talented with Indian placenames?

Could the first one be ...HARBOR?

Postmaster, I was forced to discount that possibility - the problem is that we spell the word 'HARBOUR' here. (Thus Shellharbour, not Shellharbor.)

Thanks for looking!

I thought about that, but saw this Victor Harbor (without the "u") cover on eBay.

That is interesting to see. Probably an isolated case, but you never know I guess.

That's a vastly wider field, but great fun. If you have any reasonably complete strikes, I'll be happy to see what I can guess

Just looked at the Postcode list in the back of my phone book, and it's still 'Victor Harbor'. I never realised either: very peculiar and inexplicable.

"Arbor" choices

SCARBOROUGH NSW
OUTER HARBOR SA
VICTOR HARBOR SA
BLANCHE HARBOR SA

Based on that, your CDS is "unknown"
as it cannot be verified.

Your other =

CURRABUBULA NSW (aboriginal = "two forked tree")

It can only be that one, so it's verified.

as it is today....
(use google maps, and you can drive up the highway
through currabubula, no post office in sight though)





The Indigenous Kamilaroi people lived in the area for many thousands of years.[2] The name Currabubula comes from the Gamilaraay language, possibly meaning 'two-forked tree', or a meeting of ranges at differing angles.[3] Thomas Mitchell first recorded it as the local creek name in 1831.

Before 1848 there was an 'accommodation house' at Currububla and by 1854 (or even possibly earlier) there was an inn located at Carabobbela. The village was laid out before 1860 and in 1862 Currabubula was shown on the county map.[4] A railway station on the Main North railway line was located there between 1878 and 1985.[5]

Currabubula has a public school and a hotel. The annual Currabubula Red Cross Art Exhibition takes place there. Agriculture is the major industry in the area. Important agricultural activities include the production of beef cattle, sheep and grain.