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