Ludwig Leichhardt's name in the Australian landscape

Ludwig Leichhardt

Where has his name become part of the Australian landscape?

Ludwig Leichhardt is commemorated in the names of:

(Photo © D. Nutting) road sign - Leichardt Rd

northwest of Bendigo

many streets;
an inner suburb of Sydney;
a hamlet 20 km north-west of Bendigo, Victoria;
Mount Leichhardt (1146m), 250 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory;
Leichhardt Creek, near Lake Argyle, Northern Territory;
Leichhardt Tank, a stock watering tank in the north-west of the Northern Territory, 180 km north-east of Kununurra.

Not surprisingly, Leichhardt's name appears most of all in Queensland, where many useful discoveries occurred on his successful first expedition:
(Photo by Peter Blöcker: street sign in Brisbane)

the Leichhardt River in north-west Queensland;
Leichhardt Colliery, a coal mine at Blackwater, 240 km west of Gladstone. Leichhardt noticed coal deposits here during his expedition;
two separate Leichhardt Creeks on the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria;
the Leichhardt Highway (which runs along part of the route of his Port Essington expedition);
the Leichhardt Range of mountains, approx 140 km west of Mackay;
"Leichhardt Downs" cattle station, 170 km south-west of Mackay;
"Leichhardt Farms" sheep/cattle station, 90 km north-east of Longreach;
"West Leichhardt Station" cattle station, 30 km north-east of Mt Isa;
an outer suburb of Brisbane (and of course businesses in that suburb);
an Australian Federal Parliamentary electorate covering the far north of Queensland (from 1996 to 2007 this seat was held by Warren Entsch, himself a proud descendant of German immigrants from Saxony who arrived at Adelaide in the late 1840s. They later moved to Townsville, Queensland, and later further north still. Up until 2006 Warren Entsch was the Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Tourism and Resources);
hotels/motels in: Cairns, Cloncurry, Emerald, Mt Morgan, Rockhampton, Taroom, Toowoomba;
a rowing club in Rockhampton;
a catering company in Mt Isa;
a gymnastics club in Mt Isa;
a butchery in Menzies;
a retirement home in Taroom;
a pest control and carpet cleaning business in Wandoan;
a construction company in Warana;
a soccer club in White Rock.

A creek in the Top End of the Northern Territory is called Snowdrop Creek. This name seems meteorologically inappropriate for the Northern Territory, however, it was named by Leichhardt after one of his bullocks. Leichhardt slaughtered Snowdrop on 7th November 1845 and the expedition members enjoyed the beef strips they dried.

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