I had some fun looking up scary nautical place names, of which SA has an abundance. Names like Avoid Bay and Misery Bay.
Please share yours.
Full write-up: blog.arribasail.com/2016/09/history-scary-nautical-place-names.html
Yes indeed, although most shark species are pretty harmless.
On the other hand, if you're in a place named Great White Bay, you'd better hope the "white" reference is to the sand, not the wildlife 
And, slightly off marine topic, I always liked Mount Buggery in the Vic high country.
Would be interesting to know the origins of that one.
There's some pretty weird place names. There's a small island not far from Avoid Bay called "Sudden Jerk Island".
We have Desolation Bay down the river from here www.australias.guide/tas/
Regards Don
Select to expand quoteJolene said..
Cockburn Sound 
,,, Just south of Freo
That would be the old red light district ! ? ...... 
While visiting King island one of the locals told me of a name some had given the entry to Currie harbour ( west coast ). "the white nuckel entry "
So I went and had a look from the shore..... Easy to see why they call it that ! !
Select to expand quotenswsailor said..
Wreck Bay just south of Jervis Bay NSW
And a well deserved name it is. I have dived in the area, some of the wrecks are easily accessible. well at least they were back then, that was a lonnnnnnnnnng time ago
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/heritagebranch/maritime/shipwrecksjervis.pdf
It is possible that some of the wrecks were caused by the St. George Lighthouse being in the wrong location. The light was removed and relocated to the Crookhaven Head lighthouse. The stone tower was subsequently demolished by the New Zealand Navy which used it for gunnery practice, it had to be removed lest it be confused with the then newly established light on Point Perpendicular.
Pot Boil Shoal, the eastern entry to Franklin Sound, at the southern end of Flinders Island, is a good one. It looked like a nice pot of pasta bubbling away when I went through!
Not scary but very descriptive, Tacking Point NSW. Cisco, Havefunand I spent many many hours tacking past the bloody thing. The EAC runs past at something like 4 knots.
Yes MorningBird. Six hours to clear it was so frustrating.
Scary names? How about Mount Warning and it's mate Point Danger. Heading north we see Deception Bay north side of Brisbane, Wolf Rock near Double Island Point and there is the Cannibal Group in Shoalwater Bay.
Port Phillip HEADS Eeew, yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How disgusting is that, all that #1 and #2 flowing through!
I learned to sail at the Cape of Storms and False Bay (home of the jumping Great Whites), have sailed up and down the Skeleton Coast.
I can just about see Unsafe Passage from the top of my block.
The navigators like Matthew Flinders and John Lort Stokes who named many of these places didn't use a lot of imagination when it came to choosing names. If it wasn't named after royalty, or some bigwig in the Admiralty, it was usually named just by what happened or what they saw at that place.
Point Torment: "A name was soon found for our new territory, upon which we with rueful unanimity conferred that of Point Torment, from the incessant and vindictive attacks of swarms of mosquitoes, by whom it had evidently been resolved to give the newcomers a warm welcome."
Point Escape: “The nearest land, a mangrove point bearing S.S.E. one mile, we afterwards named Escape Point, in grateful memory of the providential escapes we experienced in its vicinity. Where the boats were anchored we had nearly five feet at low-water, and the tide ran past them at the rate of five miles an hour.” From John Lort Stokes' Discoveries in Australia, which documents his charting of travels on H.M.S. Beagle. Fascinating and very entertaining reading. And a sobering first-hand history lesson on how aboriginal Australians were treated.
Select to expand quotewongaga said..
Port Phillip HEADS Eeew, yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How disgusting is that, all that #1 and #2 flowing through!Select to expand quoteJolene said..
Starvation Bay,,, east of Hopetoun ,,WA south coast
Yeah, doesn't that just whet your appetite to go there!…maybe with a fishing rod...& bait!…and technique…or, leftovers.
Select to expand quoteHG02 said..
Refuse Cove
It is what it is
Ha! good one HG!
here's one from Tassy!
Abbotsham just in from Ulverstone!
Looks like we have stirred up a hornet's nest. 
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-26/horny-point-clean-up-map-of-australia/7871090
