
The Secretary of the NSW Geographical Names Board, Kevin Richards advised the City of Newcastle Guraki Committee that their application to name eight features at Newcastle has been approved.
Mr Richards stated that the application was well received. Mr Richards will now write to Council regarding their decision in the short term. The GNB will place a public notice in the Newcastle Herald and Government Gazette in February 2014 seeking comments from the general public for a period of one month.
This follows the unanimous decision taken by Council on the 23 September 2013 to endorse the proposal that eight features of Newcastle would be given twin names to recognise the Aboriginal history. The landmarks include:
Nobbys Head Whibayganba
Flagstaff Hill Tahlbihn Point
Pirate Point (Stockton) Burrabihngarn
Port Hunter (Newcastle Harbour, The Basin, Throsby Basin, North Harbour, Port Waratah and Fullerton Cove) Yohaaba
Hunter River Coquun
Shepherds Hill Khanterin
Ironbark Creek Toohrnbing
Hexham Swamp Burraghihnbihng
The proposal is available on the Council’s website here: http://www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/230570/Attachments_Distributed_under_Separate_Cover_24_September_2013_Combined.pdf
or as a separate report here:
Endorsement of Dual Naming of Major Geographical Features in the Newcastle LGA (639KB PDF File) by Lillian Eastwood (Guraki Committee)
I think this is a marvellous idea, and long overdue
As a Noongar man, Newcastle resident and government employee I find the dual naming decision a wonderful achievement and my thanks to all and sundry concerned.
there is an earlier reference to Khanterin as Shepherds Hill than the publication by Plews (1858). The name is contained in a letter from Rev W B Clarke to Captain P P King of the Australian Agricultural Company dated 7 July 1847, and describing the geology of the Newcastle area. The letter was published as an appendix to the Coal Inquiry reports later in 1847:
“APPENDIX.—No. 1.” The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954) 13 Oct 1847: 4. Web. 15 Nov 2013 .
“So in the cliff near Khanterin, (south of Shepherd’s bush cliff) the dip is slightly to N.W , but close to this there exists an anticlinal curve, one end dipping to N., and the other to S ;”
Plews worked for the AA Co as a consultant mining engineer in the mid 1850s before he returned to England and published his report, so there may be more references in the AA Co archives.
The trove link for this report:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12889239