Eromanga
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There are several uses of the word Eromanga.
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Town
Eromanga is a small town in Southwest Queensland,Australia. It lies on the edge of what is called the Eromanga Inland Sea, which existed in the Early Cretaceous. Its claim to fame is abundant oil wells, and opal mines, and of course many pioneering cattle and sheep property owners that came and took up land in the 1860's. The name of the Town Eromanga goes back as far as about 1860.Island
In 1774, Captain Cook named an island, Erromango however did not land there. Sandalwood trees from that island were lumberjacked and sent to Australia and other countries.Language
Eromanga is a language spoken by native people of Vanuatu. Holy scriptures were printed in this language in 1864.Ships
There are three vessel listed in Lloyd's register of British and foreign shipping prior to 1880 named Erromanga, they are:1845 and 1847 editions
- Erromanga -a wooden barque of 395 tons, built in Greenock in 1845
- Erromanga -a wooden barque of 361 tons, built in Newcastle in 1844
1875 edition
- Erromanga -a wooden barque of 309 tons, built in Sunderland in 1856
There was one Australian vessel named Eromanga, and it would seem that this vessel was named after the Town of Eromanga, its details as recorded in the 1824-25 edition of Lloyd's register of shipping was as follows: Eromanga Official number 130166. A steel single screw steamship of 3359 tons, built by the Government Dockyard in Newcastle in 1921 for the Australian Commonealth Line of Shipping. In 1926 this vessel was sold to the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company and renamed Maranoa.
Trivia
The island and town are relatively well-known in Japan due to the name- "Eromanga" translates to "erotic comics" in Japanese.
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