Etymology

Tumby Bay

Today it means: A bay and town on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Full definition →

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The story

The bay was originally named by Matthew Flinders after Tumby in Lincolnshire. The town of Tumby Bay was named Tumby until 1984.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.