Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Saturday 13 June 1936, page 14


NOMENCLATURE OF QUEENSLAND.—220

MUNDOOLUN. — The first pastoral holding in the Logan and Albert districts; it was named in the early forties by William Humphreys who

first occupied it; the native name was Mundoolunookum, meaning "the place of the death adder." MUNDUBBERA.— A town in the Burnett district, 112 miles from Maryborough. Several versions are current about its meaning, the most feasible being that it was the name of a native chieftain. MUNGAR. — . An important railway ? junction near Maryborough; in the dialect of the Praser Island blacks it was the name, ol the spotted gum tree. . .MUNGUNEURRA.— A township about ; 35 miles from Charters Towers; it : was the name of a native tribe in that locality. (TQ BE CONTINUED). _^-