Tumbarumba, New South Wales

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Tumbarumba New South Wales
Main street of Tumbarumba
Population:	3737 (Tumbarumba Shire)
Postcode:	2653
Elevation:	592 m
Location:	19 km from Rosewood 41 km from Batlow
LGA:	Tumbarumba Shire Council
State District:	Albury

Tumbarumba is a small town and Local Government Area in New South Wales, Australia, about 500 km southwest of Sydney. Tumbarumba Shire is located within the Riverina region of New South Wales and more specifically on the South West Slopes at the western edge of the Snowy Mountains. In 2001, the population of Tumbarumba Shire was 3727.

To the east, Mount Kosciuszko, the Snowy Mountain's and mainland Australia's highest peak, can be seen.

Tumbarumba Shire's southern boundary is the Murray River.

The community was established in the 1850s after gold was discovered in the district. Gold mining petered out in the 1930s, and the region's economy now depends on agriculture and tourism. The timber industry dominates the Shire’s economy.

The name Tumbarumba may be derived from Wiradjuri dhamba dhamba, meaning "very soft" ^[1] or alternatively from the Aboriginal words for "hollow sounding ground", "thunder", "sound" or "place of big trees".^[2]

Contents 1 Tumbarumba trivia 2 Sport 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Tumbarumba trivia

• In late 1963, Johnny Devlin, a New Zealander, recorded the single "Stomp The Tumbarumba", a song covered later by, among others, the rock band Hoodoo Gurus. Tumbarumba in the song's title may or may not have something to do with name of the town.

• Tumbarumba is one of the very few Australian placenames mentioned in James Joyce's prose-poem Finnegans Wake. 'Tumbarumba mountain' is listed as one of the places of origin of HCE (Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker), one of the central characters of the Wake (FW 596.11).

• Shirley Abicair, the UK based Australian singer, made the town of Tumarumba's name familiar to many British children with the publication of her book "Tales of Tumbarumba" in 1962.

• Tumbarumba is another word for a tmesis, a linguistic term which refers to the placing of a word within another word, such as "ri-goddamn-diculous". The origin of this meaning may come from the poem "Tumba-bloody-rumba" by John O'Grady, which includes several tmeses including "Tumba-bloody-rumba", "e-bloody-nough", and "kanga-bloody-roos".

[edit] Sport

Tumbarumba Greens fields a rugby league team in the Group 9 competition.

there is also squash, tennis, golf, afl and indoor soccer. you'll have a bloody time.

[edit] References

1. ^ McNicol, Sally; Hosking, Dianne (1994). "Wiradjuri", Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 98. 
2. ^ Geographical Names Board of NSW Tumbarumba

[edit] See also

• Mannus Correctional Centre

[edit] External links

• Tumbarumba Shire Council
• Tumbarumba Shire Council submission to AusLink Green Paper concerning regional transport networks
• Demographic profile of Tumbarumba Shire in 2001
• Discussion on Lost Poetry web site of authorship of the poem Tumba-bloody-rumba