Spanker Knob, Bullshit Hill and Guys Dirty Hole are all real places in Australia
by Calla Wahlquist from on (#5C2W9)
From Bumcooler Flat (South Australia) to Kockup (Tasmania), we've rounded up some of Australia's weirdest place names. Add your suggestions in the comments
The North Pole is located a short distance from Marble Bar, the hottest place in inland Australia. Siberia is near Kalgoorlie, with an average summer temperature of 35C. Australian humour is not complicated. And when you colonise a land that is almost the size of Europe, it's easy to run out of names.
Which is possibly why there are so many bottoms in Tasmania.
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