Posted by: @waggawerewolf27

Ah yes, but why was Ararat in Victoria called Ararat?

Going by Wikipedia, it's after the mountain in the Bible where Noah's Ark reputedly came to rest:

Europeans first settled in the Grampians region in the 1840s after surveyor Thomas Mitchell passed through the area in 1836. In 1841, Horatio Wills, on his way to selecting country further south, wrote in his diary, "like the Ark we rested" and named a nearby hill Mt Ararat. It is from this entry and the nearby Mount that the town takes its name.

(Back to the game...)

Restronguet, a hamlet on a tidal inlet in Cornwall, UK

@Courtenay: Going by Wikipedia, it's after the mountain in the Bible where Noah's Ark reputedly came to rest:

Interesting, but Ararat, Armenia, founded in 1927, to accommodate workers in a cement factory, in the province of that name, is adjacent to Armenia's border with Turkey. That is where the original Mt Ararat is, a double coned dormant volcano. 

Now back to the game:  

Tumbarumba, New South Wales, Australia. 

Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia

Amurug [Guyana]

Grong Grong, NSW, Australia. Grong Grong in the Wiradjuri language means very bad camping ground. Given how remote it is in the Riverina, west north west of Canberra, the original Aboriginal campers might have a point. 

Goudiry [Senegal]

Yarramundi, NSW, Australia. Where the flooding downriver from us really got serious a few weeks ago, & where the roads are still very potholed & damaged.

Inverness, a city in Scotland (just a few miles away is Nairn, where Tilda Swinton lives or lived)

Illawong, NSW, Australia. A Sydney suburb, the Tharawal (Aboriginal) name, of which means "between two waters", between the Georges & Woronora Rivers. 

Great Snoring, Norfolk, England

(No, seriously. It's next to the village of Little Snoring — which these days is actually the larger of the two. )

Georgia (the country!)

Aachen, Germany

Nelson, a small city in New Zealand, presumably named after Lord Nelson (famous English admiral)

Narni, a small town in central Italy. (And its original name, in Latin, has an A on the end and once caught the eye of a young scholar known as "Jack" Lewis... )