Marvellous Map of Actual Australian Place Names

A wildly entertaining wall map featuring the most hilarious, baffling, and downright outrageous place names across the Land Down Under.

Prepare to take a journey through Australia’s geography like you’ve never experienced before. This is not your average map—it’s a riotous celebration of the absurd, the cheeky, the unintentionally filthy, and the downright bizarre names that dot Australia’s vast and varied landscape.

From Bullshit Hill (South Australia) to Lovely Bottom (Tasmania), with detours through Pisspot Creek, Titwobble Lane, Mount Buggery, and the inexplicably named Nowhere Else, the Marvellous Map brings together over 1,000 real, officially recognised Australian locations that are guaranteed to provoke laughter, gasps, and puzzled stares.

🌏 What’s on the Map?

• 1,000+ authentic Australian place names, verified and sourced with forensic accuracy from official cartographic and geographic records

• Includes:

  • Towns & suburbs: e.g. Come By Chance, Mount Disappointment, Jimcumbilly

  • Mountains & hills: e.g. Mount Buggery, Titwobble Hill, Misery Knob

  • Rivers, creeks & waterholes: e.g. Pisspot Creek, Dirty Dick Creek, Lake Fanny

  • Roads, lanes & trails: e.g. Lovely Bottom Road, Fanny Bay Road, Titwobble Lane

  • Outback oddities: You’ll find obscure and often-overlooked gems from the heart of the desert to the misty coasts

• Features a beautifully vintage aesthetic, so you can display it proudly and watch as unsuspecting guests slowly realise what they’re looking at

🎁 Why You’ll Love It

• Looks classy from a distance: Designed to resemble an antique map, it wouldn’t look out of place in a home office, study, or travel den—until you read it up close

• Hilarious and unique: It’s the perfect blend of humour and geography, combining beautiful cartographic design with side-splitting content

• A brilliant gift: Ideal for:

  • Map lovers & geography nerds

  • Travellers and road-trippers

  • People with a mischievous sense of humour

  • Teachers, pub quiz masters, and trivia junkies

  • Expats who miss home—and its weird, glorious place names

• Australian-made: Printed locally on FSC-approved 150 gsm uncoated paper for a tactile, archival feel with a high-quality print finish

• Rolled in a thick cardboard tube, unmarked for surprise gifting. Just add a bow or a knowing wink.

📐 Product Specifications

• Size: 660 mm x 660 mm — square and perfect for framing

• Material: Premium 150 gsm uncoated, FSC-certified paper

• Design: Faux-vintage with beautiful colour tones, ornate compass rose, and decorative embellishments

• Packaging: Supplied rolled in a robust, gift-friendly cardboard tube

• Published by: Strumpshaw, Tingleton & Giggleswick – specialists in curious cartography

🎯 Who’s It For?

• Anyone with a sense of humour and curiosity

• Those who’ve road-tripped Australia and know that sometimes the signs are funnier than the destination

• Geography teachers looking for an icebreaker or classroom talking point

• Fans of trivia, maps, wordplay, and wonderfully weird facts

🔍 Learn While You Laugh

Yes—it’s funny. But it’s also strangely informative. You’ll learn:

• How deeply local history and colloquial language have shaped Australian geography

• That bureaucrats really did approve names like Peculiar Knob, Delicate Nobby, and Lumpy Flat

• That sometimes, the best stories are hidden in the margins of the map

So whether you hang it above your desk, gift it to your dad, or spend an afternoon tracing the oddest Aussie road trip route imaginable, the Marvellous Map of Actual Australian Place Names is guaranteed to entertain.

Classy from afar. Crass up close.
Geography has never been this much fun.