Australian History

[Manpa]

Thanks Goldierocks.

I am a small town with a morbid name, what is it.

 

[Manpa]

I am a small town with a morbid name, what is it.

I am known for my delicious oysters

 

[Deepseeker]

Coffin Bay!!

 

[Manpa]

Yep Deepseeker, home of Australia's most delicious oysters and the town was named after Isaac Coffin a friend of Matthew Flinders, over to you

 

[Deepseeker]

A prominent feature on my home states landscape, I was the site of a tragedy that killed all on board, including 3 of Australia's best known winemakers & a Federal politician.

 

[user 4386]

Mount Dandenong (the Kyeema) - 18 passengers and crew died

 

[Deepseeker]

:Y: Well done goldierocks! Thought I was going to have to give some more clues for a moment there!

 

[user 4386]

Thanks. This Australian place sounds like two animals, in the shadow of an aviator. Where is it, and what occurred there?

 

[user 4386]

Think Kurana, Kyeema.

 

[shakergt]

Mount Macedon

 

[user 4386]

Mount Macedon

No. First clues and questions were "This Australian place sounds like two animals, in the shadow of an aviator. Where is it, and what occurred there"?

 

[shakergt]

Mount Dandenong and a plane crash

 

[user 4386]

No (Dandenong does not sound like two animals). Otherwise on the track....

 

[shakergt]

I am stuck on the two animals bit

 

[Tjspurway20102018]

The answer is the Welcome Stranger was found at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia in 1869 :goldnugget:

 

[user 4386]

I am stuck on the two animals bit

"In the shadow of an aviator" - although a plane crash, this is an independent clue unrelated to the crash. What is another name for an aviator?

Also the name of the place SOUNDS like the name of two animals (a single word) but is not - sounds like a farm animal plus a native animal joined together.

 

[user 4386]

No, not Moliagul

 

[StoneTheCrows]

BoolBurra
Air Ambulance crash 1958

 

[user 4386]

No not Boolburra. They sound like real animal names forming the word. " the name of the place SOUNDS like the name of two animals (a single word) but is not - sounds like a farm animal plus a native animal joined together". Even spelt like the two animals except they share the letter that joins them.

It was in the first half of the 1950s and was a Dakota

"In the shadow of an aviator" - although a plane crash, this is an independent clue unrelated to the crash. What is another name for ANY person who is an aviator - an alternative name of the job of aviator (an important clue as to a physical feature)? Also what type of physical feature would you expect a plane to crash in the shadow of?

The place is in Victoria but overlooked by a feature in NSW, and both are in National Park.

Only one died.

 

[shakergt]

Think I got it

Cowombat flat the pilot was killed in the crash