English: where the river enters the sea
Bundjalung: baluna
Part of Speech: place name
Related Words:
With same English translation:  
Category: location
Comment: Aboriginal name for Ballina. Mur:Sc:AndFre states: 'Balloona well known town, Ballina, place of dead, dying or wounded; blood running from wounded.'
Gold Coast Tweed: Mur:Sc:AndFre Balloona; RTr Balluna


This project is an initiative of: decorative

Supported through the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages Support program and New Media program. Copyright © Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Cooperative

Image by Sharon Smith. For more information contact Muurrbay