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Placename Puzzle

Test your knowledge of Australian placenames with this month’s puzzle.

with Reference to reading

The clues reveal placenames with a literary reference (disregard spelling).
E.g. (SA) Otherwise knows as Mr Holmes …………..Sherlock)

  1. (SA) The cargo also contained cedarwood and sweet white wine
  2. (SA) Home of Fanny Price
  3. (SA) Basil Hallward painted a portrait of Mr Gray
  4. (SA) Her police detective is Adam Dalgleish, settlement
  5. (NSW) The daughter of Prospero
  6. (NSW) He came out of the West to wed the fair Ellen
  7. (NSW) He’s in his hammock till the great Armadas come
  8. (NSW/SA/TAS) Goldsmith thought it was the loveliest village of the plain
  9. (ACT) Keats was ‘Silent, upon a peak in Darien’, when first looking into this author’s translation of Homer
  10. (ACT/SA) From experience, he wrote of Tom’s education at Rugby
  11. (QLD) The noble lady from Malfi
  12. (QLD) According to Jack Higgins this large bird has landed; agricultural establishment
  13. (QLD) This son of Apollo lost his wife through looking back; land surrounded by water
  14. (VIC) It is right in the centre of Midlothian
  15. (VIC) The grandson of Nokomis
  16. (VIC) Pick one of these flowers as time is passing
  17. (WA) Beneath this tree the party took place after the wedding of the tranter’s son Dick Dewey and Fancy Day
  18. (WA) The winter of discontent was made glorious by him
  19. (VIC/WA) Father of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, one twelfth of a year
  20. (VIC/QLD) This 2009 Miles Franklin award winner took a deep breath

Answers can be found in the March 2010 Issue of the Placenames Australia

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