Gazetteer of Historical Australian Places
SORT: Placename | State | LGA | Feature_term | Latitude | Longitude | Start Date | End Date |
This map aims only to show the most commonly accepted Indigenous names of cities. There may be many Indigenous names for a place depending on context, place and/or landmark within a city. Some names may be contested by different Indigenous groups. We have tried to provide links for more information about each name and the complexities related to each location.
NITV cite historian Neville Green's 1933 book, 'Broken spears: Aborigines and Europeans in the southwest of Australia, as documenting Boorloo as a place name. According to Green Boorloo sits in Moroo territory, one of four territories of the Whadjak Peoples. It extends north of the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River), across the Perth CBD and the north-west suburbs. The Whadjuk nation is a part of the Noongar peoples collective, a network of 13 or so similar linguistic groups covering south-west Western Australia. Hear Gomeroi woman and 10 News First journalist Madeline Hayman-Reber pronounce the traditional place name of Boorloo (Perth).