The Dr came home from work last night with a fun top fact. Woomera - the Australian home to the British rocketships during the 1950s and 60s, and famous for looking right through the Vogan demolition fleet in the first episode of Hitchhiker - is named after device the Eora people there used for lobbing things.
How marvellous. It's like called Cape Canaveral "Trebuchet" or "Firework".
That is indeed an uppermost factoid; sadly unmatched by the prosaic translations of "Cañaveral", "Baikonur" and "Kourou".
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