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Draft:NiggaHead Rock (Trefoil Island, Tasmania)

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  • Comment: This island is mentioned in Use of nigger in proper names, in the Australia section. If anything has developed since the 2022 maps controversy, this might have the potential for an article. Wikishovel (talk) 12:10, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Niggerhead Rock is a small island or rock off the coast of Trefoil Island, located off the west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It lies about 20-30 kms out from Valley Bay, Cape Grim.[1][2]

In 2017, it was proposed that the island by renamed to its Tasmanian Aboriginal name of Karanutung,[1] but As of 2022 the current name was still used in a printed map issued by the Tasmanian Government.[2]

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  1. ^ a b "Aboriginal alternatives offered for 'offensive' Tasmanian place names". ABC News (Australia). May 6, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Land Council Decries Maps with Offensive Place Name". Tasmanian Times. May 18, 2022.
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