I live beside the Severn River at Glen Aplin and Severnlea is just up the road to Stanthorpe. A Scottish surveyor called Aplin named our valley by a Scottish word meaning valley and after himself - Glen Aplin. Stanthorpe was the combination of two old English names - stannum for tin and thorpe for village, as the town was founded as a tin mine.
One of my favourite place names is Bringalily. I went to school at Yamsion where the Aboriginal people had gathered yams.
An Uncle lived at a destination below Toowoomba called Egypt. He told me that in the days of the railway line construction between Brisbane and Helidon, and during a drought, a drover brought in some fat cattle from his region. When asked how come he had fat cattle he referred to the Bible and quoted, "There is still corn in Egypt."
Another tale was that a man doing a perish, staggered into the railway camp on a hot day and said, "Hell I'm done!" The name stuck as Helidon.

I too am interested in place names, my driving takes me every place.
And I understand why the names are the same in some areas Glouster, did not spell it right last time maybe not this, has a lot in common with Bowral.
Same rich settlers same names.
Comboine, now I know that is not the right spelling has names that are stolen from Mittagong, Bowral, Moss vale, its first spud growers came from there.
Other names just beg me to find out more, murderers creek bridge on the Hume, or 3 legged man creek.
Those drives CJM are fun if you let them be, while killing time for a lunch time visit, only time I can, I took one last week.
In the Yaramolong Valley, nearly every farm had entered the scarecrow contest.
Far better than bush letter boxes one even had a rider on a horse both really life like.
I think we all understand in the days names got handed out distance and remoteness often meant names got used over and again.
But we did have a nation wide review names board or something and we still have hundreds of pipe clay creeks, stony creeks, and yes foxy spring Hill, creek rivers.

I like the name Illabo. It sounds almost South American Andean-like to my ear.

It is a little rail siding with wheat silos just west of Bethungra, on the main railway line from Sydney to Wagga, Albury, and Melbourne. At one time, as that railway was being built, a place called Billabong Creek was the terminus.

I understand the name arose when, when those heavy old cast iron letters they used to use for station names were being sent out for erection, it was found that the letters 'B', 'n', and 'g', together with all the letters for 'Creek', had gone missing. So 'Billabong Creek' became 'Illabo'.

So there you go.

That's Illabo.

BTW Belly, OT. Thanks for that comment re Fractelle's topic that isn't yet a topic on the 'Extradition without evidence from the UK / US' thread. I'm not trying to put it down: indeed I'd like to post to it, because I can see a lot of good mutually supporting stuff coming from it, but to do so where it is is going to rob the Howes' thread of focus and progress.

I will drive over 4 pipe clay creeks and 2 stony creeks today.
Pity it was not just 2 creeks if so we would not be so short of water.
They exist a long way apart.
Wild dog creek, surely has story to tell us?
That 3 legged man one existed before Rolf was born.

Its actually 'Three Legs O' Man Creek', Belly.

The name derives from the heraldic symbol of the Isle of Man, an island located in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland (Lesser Britain?). That symbol has three armoured legs equidistantly placed around a central point where they all join at the hip.

The Isle of Man has the oldest continuing Parliament in the world, Tynewald.

It is not actually part of the UK, but is a dependency thereof. It is topical inasmuch as Canonical Ltd, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, free to computer users all over the world, is domiciled there.

Just in case anyone is interested.

Belly;
There are dozens of willow tree creeks and half way houses(pubs), 10 mile inns and so all relics of the Cobb and Co era as places to stop for refreshments and change horses. Some place names are descriptive and others for an event. Not far from me is a location called apple bog, where a horse lorry got bogged on the road with a load of apples. Other places such as Bunters cutting were named after the contractors that did the work there. One hill I know is locally called Pinchfinger after a bullocky lost a finger trying to chock the wheels of a bullock wagon on the hill.

What intrigues me most is the dozens of places in south WA that have names ending in 'up' and I wonder if someone can tell us why this is so.