Australia is full of place names with Aboriginal origins. Just in Sydney we have:
Kirribilli, Woolloomooloo, Parramatta, Woollahra, Turramurra, Bondi, Coogee, Maroubra, Cronulla, Narrabeen, Tamarama, Warringah, Cabramatta and on and on it goes.
Here's an insight into how these names were embraced.
This is Governor Macquarie's diary entry for 29 November 1810 when he is on trek exploring the area we know as Warragamba.
"The Banks of the River are here very lofty and almost perpendicular, not being less than 400 Feet in height and wooded to their very summits. They are beautifully grand and picturesque to look at, but extremely difficult to pass or travel through on foot from their great steepness and ruggedness.
One of the natives born near this part of the country, and who was one of our party on this day's excursion, tells us that the real and proper native name of this newly discovered River that we are now exploring is the Warragombie, by which name I have directed it to be called in future. The immense high hill directly opposite where we breakfasted on, is called Cheenbar and is well known to the Natives."