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Courtenay
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Naarm (or Narrm), which, as @waggawerewolf27 has just mentioned, is the Aboriginal name (specifically in the local Woiwurrung language) for the area where the City of Melbourne is.

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in 1835, John Batman planned to settle the Port Phillip city now called Melbourne (or Naarm), but which he wanted to call Batmania, at first. 

... and let's just say probably all of us Melburnians are grateful he didn't get his way. Grin  

"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)

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Posted : October 10, 2024 4:30 pm
Narnian.In.the.North
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Mahtomedi, Minnesota, USA

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia." ~ Puddleglum, The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

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Posted : October 10, 2024 5:32 pm
waggawerewolf27
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Ipswich, in Queensland (pictured), which state of Australia was once merely part of NSW, until 1859. The famed Captain Cook did not discover Australia, itself, only the unexplored East Coast, from NSW's border with Victoria, right up to Possession Island at the very tip of Cape Yorke Peninsula. There, he claimed what he discovered for Great Britain, calling it New South Wales, prefacing his remarks with an acknowledgement of the many Dutch Republic explorers, who had already mapped much of the rest of New Holland, which was Australia's previous name. 

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Posted : October 10, 2024 5:47 pm
Courtenay
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Haworth, in West Yorkshire, England, famous for being the home of the Brontë sisters. 

"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)

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Posted : October 15, 2024 6:21 am
coracle
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Holland   - part of the Netherlands (aka The Low Countries). For years we were told not to use this name, but these days it's often used to refer to the whole Netherlands. 

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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