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During World War I, many German or German-sounding place names in Australia were changed due to anti-German sentiment. The presence of German-derived place names was seen as an affront to the war effort at the time.

The names were often changed by being anglicised (such as Peterborough), or by being given new names of Aboriginal origin (Kobandilla, Karawirra) or in commemoration of notable soldiers (Kitchener and Holbrook) or World War I battlefields (Verdun, The Somme).

New South Wales

Queensland

South Australia

The South Australian Nomenclature Act 1917 authorised the compilation and gazetting of a list of place-names contained in a report of the previous October prepared by a parliamentary "nomenclature committee", and authorised the Governor of South Australia, by proclamation, to "alter any place-name which he deems to be of enemy origin to some other name specified in the proclamation". The table below includes the 69 changes gazetted on 10 January 1918.

The Nomenclature Act 1935 restored the former names of the towns of Hahndorf and Lobethal, and the Adelaide suburb of Klemzig. About 20 other names were reverted in the 1970s and 1980s; some of them were assigned to larger localities rather than reverting to the original place name, as also shown in the table.

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

See also

• German Australian
• German settlement in Australia
• Berlin to Kitchener name change, parallel phenomenon in Canada
• Kitchener bun

References

1. "German Place Names". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 5, no. 234. South Australia. 11 November 1916. p. 11. Retrieved 1 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
2. ^ Jervis, James (1951). A History of the Municipality of Canterbury. Canterbury, NSW: Municipality of Canterbury. pp. 97–98.
3. ^ "THE KAISER GOES". Evening News. No. 14, 814. New South Wales, Australia. 1 December 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
4. ^ "ABOLISHING GERMAN NAMES". Evening News. No. 14, 826. New South Wales, Australia. 15 December 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "KITCHENER-STREET". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 23, 976. New South Wales, Australia. 12 November 1914. p. 10. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
6. ^ Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List- NSW". Phoenix Auctions. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
7. "CHANGING A GERMAN NAME". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 13, 478. New South Wales, Australia. 15 January 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
8. "SHOULD GERMAN NAMES BE CHANGED?". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 24, 974. New South Wales, Australia. 21 January 1918. p. 8. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
9. "THE NAME OF A STREET". Barrier Miner. Vol. XXVIII, no. 8447. New South Wales, Australia. 14 September 1915. p. 1. Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
10. ^ Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List- Queensland". Phoenix Auctions. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
11. "CHANGE FOR THE BETTER". Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954). Qld.: National Library of Australia. 13 January 1915. p. 4. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
12. "Marburg (entry 20917)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
13. Nomenclature Act 1917 (SA)  
14. ^ "Nomenclature Act 1917 Change of place names" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. 1918. Government of South Australia: 37. 10 January 1918. Retrieved 2 January 2021 – via AustLII.
15. ^ "Nomenclature Act (No 2231 of 1935)". Government of South Australia. p. 1. Retrieved 29 December 2018 – via AustLII.
16. Named for geologist and philanthropist Leopold von Buch
17. ^ "Changing Names". The Daily Herald. Vol. 8, no. 2437. South Australia. 11 January 1918. p. 2. Retrieved 10 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
18. ^ Named by Ernest Giles for botanist Ferdinand von Mueller.
19. Named for M. F. Basedow MHA, MLC.
20. Named for Robert Homburg MHA.
21. Named for Friedrich Paech MHA.
22. Named for Friedrich Pflaum MHA
23. Named for Johann Theodor Scherk MHA
24. Named for Moritz Richard Schomburgk, director of Adelaide Botanic Garden
25. Named for Alfred von Doussa MLC.
26. Named for F. E. H. W. Krichauff MLC.
27. "Our New Title". The Times and Northern Advertiser, Peterborough, South Australia. National Library of Australia. 9 May 1919. p. 2. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
28. Named for winemaker Joseph Ernst Seppelt
29. Phoenix Auctionsl History. "Post Office List- Tasmania". Phoenix Auctions. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
30. "Lilydale". The Age. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
31. ^ Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List- Victoria". Phoenix Auctions. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
32. "Camberwell City Council". Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser. 20 December 1918. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
33. Betty Smith nee Thiele resident at the time
34. Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List- WA". Phoenix Auctions. Retrieved 22 March 2021.

External links

• Adelaide Co-operative History – German Place Names
• South Australian History – German placenames
• Australian Bureau of Statistics – Changing of German Place Names in Australia
• Victorian counties map

• Lists of places in Australia
• Names of places in Australia
• Australia in World War I
• 1910s in Australia
• Australia geography-related lists
• Lists of cities by toponymy
• Anti-German sentiment
• German-Australian culture
• History of Australia (1901–1945)
• City name changes