Choose an Australian place name to rename your city.

Rename Oxford, Merangaroo!

None.... I can't even pronounce any of them. & the ones that I can pronounce,it'll take too long for me to say where I live.

Toowoomba has a nice ring to it.

Toowoomba, Minnesota doesn't sound too bad.

I thought Yepoon would be the most popular for some reason

Coolangatta

I choose Noondoonia, with Wooloomooloo coming in a close second.

Probably because it sounds just a little bit cheeky!

Cunnamulla. Given the predilection of the natives of my town to reduce words to their bare minimum, I have no doubt that within two weeks of the name change people would be saying "Comin' up Cunnie town centre tonight?" (which sounds a bit rude)

Yarraloola sounds pretty nice.

The Wooloomooloo is a club in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Dundee - nah!!
Innaloo - definitely!!

Dandaraga.

umm did someone forget thier medication today.,?

moojeeba, probably becuse I had cow on the brain, just picked up a side of beef.

Cunnamulla because it sounds Diiiirty!

I guess Beetoota. I love them all! What cool names. Fun to say.

wooloomooloo, because the sound of that is how i feel about this place sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It certainly does. Someone should do a Canadian one, I mean Tuktoyuktuk!? Come on!

I wanted to go there when we did our road trip up to Alaska back in 1995. My buddy had a new truck, and he didn't want to take it on the Dempster Highway, which is basically a dirt road between Dawson City and Inuvik; 600 km, no towns, no gas stations, nothing! We were up there in July/August. That Labour Day, Molsen Canadian Brewery threw a beach party at Tuktoyuktuk with Metallica and Hole. Contest winners were flown in, but it was free to anyone who could get their ass up there!

Sounds like a really cold version of the outback. What a cool idea, holding a concert way up there, and what a great way of bringing some business to a frontier town.

I only know about the place because of that Tv show about the Mounty who moved to Chicago. He was like some mountain survival dude, and once mentioned Tuktoyuktuk. I had to look it up (I keep an Atlas next to my TV chair) and it actually existed! It looks like a great place on the map. It's on the Beaufort Sea. How many places are on the Beaufort Sea? I don't know about the cold though - almost at 70deg North. Wow. I hate to think what it's like in winter. How many people made it up there under their own steam?
I also like Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, and the unpronouncable Talurqjuak, Oqsuqtooq, Igluligaarjuk (formerly Chesterfield Inlet ) and Ikaluktutiak (formerly Cambridge Bay).

It seems like the letter K is an Inuit favourite, while it became obvious as I was typing out this survey that double O is very common in Australian Aboriginal Names.

Oh yeah! That show was a hoot when it first came out. It went downhill rapidly, I think I stopped watching it after the first season. There were tons of gags in it that only a Canadian would get. What the heck was it called?..."Due South!"

Tuktoyuktuk is pretty well known in Canada, although I'm not really sure why. Probably because it is the farthest north town that is somewhat accessible by road.

The far north is actually pretty pleasant, temperature-wise, in the summer. 24 hours of sunlight has a lot to do with it I suspect. I think that was the weirdest thing about going up there, 22 hours of sunlight and 2 hours of twilight a day. The farthest north we got was about 64deg North, on our way out of Dawson City, Yukon, heading towards Alaska.

A few people made it up to the beach party that weren't contest winners. I'd say between 10 and 20.

I'm well familiar with Moose Jaw (friends and family from there) and Medicine Hat. I've never heard of all those other ones, probably little villages in the far north from the sounds of it. The funniest place name in Canada has GOT to be "Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump".http://www.head-smashed-in.com/ Dave Barry says the highlight of his life was phoning the Interpretive Centre and hearing someone answer the phone: "Head Smashed In, how may I help you?"

wooloomooloo is funny

22 hours of sunlight! Sounds fantastic. I suppose winter is the reverse though. Everyone who comes here to Brisbane comments on how we have no twilight. It just goes from sunlight which is still strong on the horizon to dark in about 15 minutes. I understand places around the equator have even less. Here it's 27deg South.

20 people? Wow, you must have met the bands. That's a party not a concert!

Yeah, I was trying to remember that Head Smashed In placename, but I thought it might be in the US. I've seen it on TV, at least the place where the buffalo used to jump off. It certainly has to be the most unusual name in the English language. Is the head smashed in part refering to the buffalo hitting the ground below or was there another incident involving heads getting smashed in?

Funny phone answering story! I can just imagine some bored operator saying that like there's nothing weird about it.

Yes, when you get above a certain latitude, the Arctic circle I believe, it is essentially 1 day a year; six months of night and six months of daylight. The same would apply in the Antarctic of course.

The furthest south I have traveled is Denpaser, Bali, just about 9deg South.

I saw some clips on the news about the Arctic beach party. Essentially the entire town of Tuktoyuktuk came out for it. It would be highly unusual for them to ever get a chance to see something like that, so I guess even the oldsters were curious...

Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump is about 150 km south of Calgary, Alberta. And about 80 km north of the US border with Montana.

Yes, the buffalo heads were smashed in. They used to drive herds of them off the cliff.

I prefer New South Wales actually

i dont think anyone would live in my town if those were the names to choose from.

It would be interesting to know their meaning. Not sure I am pronouncing them right.
I can't decide between Cunnamulla and Tibooburra.

Yarraloola
wonder why I chose that one?