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3 hours ago, Bazza said:

 

 

 

We have a few similar names in Puget Sound here.  Point No Point, Destruction Island, though perhaps the most visited one is Deception Pass.  There is also a Pull and Be Damned Point (and Pull and Be Damned Road leading to it).  Explored and named by Brits about the same time as Tasmania, this suggests to me that those sent out on exploration and charting voyages were selected for a certain ... attitude ... towards their work.

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7 hours ago, Bazza said:

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Cancer said:

 

We have a few similar names in Puget Sound here.  Point No Point, Destruction Island, though perhaps the most visited one is Deception Pass.  There is also a Pull and Be Damned Point (and Pull and Be Damned Road leading to it).  Explored and named by Brits about the same time as Tasmania, this suggests to me that those sent out on exploration and charting voyages were selected for a certain ... attitude ... towards their work.

 

Somewhere, there's a picture of me from my time in West Virginia where I'm standing in front of the Big Ugly Elementary School.

 

(Derivation of the name: Somebody once discovered a creek and named it Ugly Creek. Following it upstream, they discovered that it split into two tributaries, which they named Big Ugly Creek and Little Ugly Creek. The hollows, or 'hollers', through which these creeks flowed were consequently named Big Ugly Hollow and Little Ugly Hollow. This elementary school was located in Big Ugly Hollow.)

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