Australian Cities Etymologies #1

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Year provided is the year the name was first given to the area.

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Named after...	Decade adopted	Answer
British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount __	1780s	Sydney
British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies Robert __, 4th Earl Buckinghamshire	1800s	Hobart
an English city also famous for its status as a major coal-exporting port	1800s	Newcastle
the Dharawal people's name for the area, meaning perhaps 'sound of the sea' or 'five islands'	1820s	Wollongong
the river on which it is located, itself named after New South Wales Governor Sir Thomas __	1820s	Brisbane
a Scottish city, which derives its name from the Pictish for 'wood' or 'copse'	1820s	Perth
the German consort of King William IV, Queen __ of Saxe-Meiningen	1830s	Adelaide
British Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount __	1830s	Melbourne
the Wathaurong aboriginal name for the area, which probably means 'resting place'	1830s	Ballarat
Prince William of __, an associate of namer Thomas Mitchell during the Peninsula War, who went on to become King William II of the Netherlands	1840s	Orange
a local creek, itself named after the nickname of a local shepherd and barenuckle prizefighter, William Abednego Thompson	1850s	Bendigo
the businessman who financed the establishment of the city, Robert __. The city is sometimes thought (incorrectly) to have a tautological name	1860s	Townsville
a local aboriginal kinship group, combined with a Saxon geographical suffix	1870s	Bundaberg
the port it was situated in, itself named by the crew of the HMS Beagle after their former shipmate Charles __, Origin of Species author	1910s	Darwin
the Ngunnawal people's name for the area, meaning perhaps ‘meeting place’ or 'woman's breasts'	1910s	Canberra
the area's inflated and booming real estate market. Originally a nickname given by journalists to a stretch of then-distinct townships	1950s	Gold Coast