a game called geography

Narrandera, NSW

Like the North American Indians, the aboriginal people have a large number of "tribes", all of whom have a different language. I don't believe that they ever had a name for the whole country simply because they did not have a concept that there was anywhere other than the land they roamed over. Do the different tribes of North America have a name for North America? So, to use one of the local Sydney tribes as an example, the Garrigal people, they know that the local land was occupied by the Garrigal people and that other people occupied other land, but that was as far as it went. We have named areas after the people who originally occupied the land, but that was the whites naming the land, not the aboriginals.

 

Atapo, NZ

Aotearoa was the Maori name for only the North Island of NZ, the South Island was called Te Wai Pounamu (and the "Mainland" by South Islanders). As it happens, there has been recent debate about what to call the North and South islands "officially" since none of the above were ever formalised and Aotearoa is now in common usage to refer to the whole country.
"Hone Harawhira, an outspoken Maori Party MP, said: 'It's time to drop the North Island, South Island. Those names don't have any connotation except these people are too dumb to work it out for themselves.'"

By the way, New Zealanders call Australia "The West Island"

 

Darlington, South OZ

 

North Charleston ............ SC

 

Nago, Japan

 

Eagleville, Tennessee
..............................small crossroads with a post office, about 40 miles from Nashville.


"Tennessee in the House"

 

Island in the Shefa

 

arizona

 

Edgemont ................ NY

 

Tableland, Australia

 

Utica, Michigan

 

Audobon ............. NJ