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Queensland Place Names and Their Meanings.
Coolum or Goolum.(4) I cannot trace in this name any reference
to the native bear which,in this locality is "Kulla" ,nor
to volcano or weeping mountain. I am of opinion that
it is derived from the native word Gooloom which, liberally
interpreted,means "without point or peak","or blunt", and that
it originated with the aboriginal legend that Mt. Crook-neck
and Mt Gooloom once had a fight and that Crook-neck knocked Cooloom's head
off and into the sea where it became an island now known as
"Old Woman Island. In the Kabi language an arm from
which the hand has been lopped becomes gooloom and a spear
from which the point is broken is also gooloom, and as the
mountain in question is without a peak the word would also
apply to this.
Cooran. This is the name of the Moreton Bay Ash tree, but
I doubt if the name of the mountain is derived from it.
This mountain is the highest and most peaked of the mount-
ains in its vicinity and I think the name is derived grom[sic]
the word Guran, meaning long or tall.
Cooroy. Said to be from the native name of the grey
opossum Koo-roo'-ee. But the mountain is a round (kuree') one.
In moist weather (and the mountain is in the rain forest
country)it is very frequently girt with a cloud (Ku'-ru-ee)
through which its peak protrudes. Either of the two
latter names are quire as applicable as the first.
Obi Obi(7) Some times spelled Ubi Ubi. I cannot trace in
this name any reference to Plenty, which in the local abo.
language is maiyum. I believe it is a variation of the
words wubi wubi(7) which means "evil spirits" and refers to a mount
near the junction of Obi creek with the Mary River.
Tewantin.(5) From dauwadan, place of dead trees or logs.
From dauwa, dried or withered, a word applied to dead trees
by the aboriginals. This name was probably applied to
the place in early days when timber-getting and sawmilling
was then carried on on[sic] a considerable scale in the locality.