Tumbarumba, New South Wales
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| Tumbarumba New South Wales |
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 Main street of Tumbarumba |
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| Population: | 1,487 [1] |
| Established: | 1850s |
| Postcode: | 2653 |
| Elevation: | 592 m (1,942 ft) |
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| LGA: | Tumbarumba Shire Council |
| County: | Selwyn |
| State District: | Albury |
Tumbarumba is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, about 500 km southwest of Sydney. Tumbarumba is located within the Riverina region and more specifically on the South West Slopes at the western edge of the Snowy Mountains. At the 2006 Census of Population and Housing, 1,487 people lived in the town.[1] Tumbarumba Shire Council is administered from offices located in Tumbarumba.
To the east, Mount Kosciuszko, the Snowy Mountain's and mainland Australia's highest peak, can be seen.
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" [2] or alternatively from the Aboriginal words for "hollow sounding ground", "thunder", "sound" or "place of big trees".[3]
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[edit] Cultural references
- In November 1963, New Zealander Johnny Devlin (with Bee Gees on backing vocals) released the single "Stomp The Tumbarumba",[4] a song covered later by, among others, the Australian rock band Hoodoo Gurus (see "Come Anytime" and "1000 Miles Away"). 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".
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[edit] Sport
Tumbarumba Greens fields a rugby league team in the Group 9 competition.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Tumbarumba (Urban Centre/Locality). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2008-03-31.
- ^ McNicol, Sally; Hosking, Dianne (1994). "Wiradjuri", Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 98.
- ^ Geographical Names Board of NSW Tumbarumba
- ^ Bee Gees Recordings
[edit] See also
[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
