Forwarded by List Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Phil [ Sent: Monday, 31 March 2008 8:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SEQ-Germans] "Miles" from where? A simple Google search shows that Seventeen Mile Rocks was named after the rocks that were seventeen miles upstream from Brisbane Town. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [SEQ-Germans] "Miles" from where? >> Gaylene mentions "17 Mile Rocks", I have ancestors who lived >> in the Brisbane area at "1 Mile Swamp" and another family at >> "4 Mile Swamp". > > I think the miles are measured from whatever other place was of interest > to > the person who named it. I don't think there is generally some > well-defined > point from which they are all measured. > > For what it's worth, the One Mile Swamp is Woolloongabba. The area that is > now the bus station and cricket ground was once rather swampy. > > Kerry