They tell that Wagga Wagga is therefore practiced that they named it twice.
They are wrong. The bit Wagga inwards Wagga Wagga is used equally an intensifier. Wagga agency 'crow'. So Wagga Wagga agency 'many crows'. This reduplication of names is a fairly mutual subject inwards Australian place-names. Another illustration is the town of Tiba Tiba, which agency 'lots of water'.
The Reduplication Map of Australia is an interactive map of around i hundred place-names inwards Commonwealth of Australia which are reduplicated names. You tin filter the place-names shown on the map past times country or past times UTM zone.
Most, if non all, of these reduplicated names come upwards from indigenous languages. If you lot are interested inwards what these places await similar in addition to therefore you lot should accept a await at Muru View. Muru View superimposes the master indigenous place-names of Australian locations on exceed of Google Maps Street View - inwards 3d!
The application uses place-names used inwards historical surveys from the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia to map the master indigenous place-names of locations inwards New South Wales. It superimposes the place-name labels for each of these locations on exceed of its Google Map's Street View.
