Named by a seafarer too long away from port? Unfortunate that they wimped out with East and West. Front and Rear Intercourse Islands would have worked much better. And why no Intercourse Passage? A display from the WA Museum showing the Dampier Archipelago, or The Leg-over Archipelago which was the original name. Yesterday The pre-eminent Rottnest blog Rottobloggo was asking if Rottnest was twinned with any other islands, sister city style. Go no further than Mid Intercourse Island Rottos. You have your twin. I always thought Rottnest was Intercourse Island. More people will have ended up with sand in their cracks on Rottnest than any other island besides Ibiza no? I’ll leave Rottobloggo to dig up the sand/cracks ratio.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Intercourse (Treasure) Island
The Worst of Perth 
I wonder if Mistaken Island comes right near the Mid Incourse Islands for a reason. Second thoughts? Beer goggles wearing off?
And as for Haycock Island, I wonder if that’s any less irritating than Sandcrack?
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There is a Mt Buggery in the Victorian Alps but we don’t hear much about that.
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I assume that the name arose amongst sailors because if you get shipwrecked here, you’re f*cked
as Aussie geographic nomenclature goes, this shows more imagination than The Great Sandy Desert.
My favourite is Lake Disappointment, whixh is somewhere near the Slough of Despond
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cheers for the link LA. foolishly I didn’t include this detail about Sark in my post yesterday: “The Seigneur retained the sole right on the island to keep pigeons and was the only person allowed to keep an unspayed female dog”.
I return the challenge for further information back to you re the unspayed female dog situation on the Intercourse Archipelago.
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http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=171273
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Good one Mr Big.
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Cock Wash is in South Australia?
Gold. Pure gold.
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OMG! I just noticed: all the Intercourses look like cornflakes!
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East or “front” Intercourse looks like a Sandman panelvan
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It might have been worse, it could have been a penal colony like [the map of] Tassie
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Put those comments back LA. Back to where they belong. At alsation wolfen it down.
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keep it on the topic and they will stay up.
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OK dont be so serious. its a satriical site afterall
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Have you read much Jane Austen, Greg? It was hilarious for a teenage schoolboy to first read this in Pride & Prejudice:
“I do not pretend to regret any thing I shall leave in Hertfordshire, except your society, my dearest friend; but we will hope at some future period, to enjoy many returns of the delightful intercourse we have known, and in the mean while may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence. I depend on you for that.”
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That quote seems an excellent place to leave it for everyone. Greg is just in moderation for a little while. Anything reasonably on topic will still go up. Reading back through them, he had some really good comments. They’re not all gone.
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an excellent and moderate moderation moderator
thanks
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I have seen both of these islands, and I feel Rottnest is rather more accomodating. I fondly recall many a frolic on Rotto in my distant youth -indeed, the ghost of my virginity still haunts the old graveyard at the foot of the Vlamingh lookout track. But a frolic on Mid Intercourse would require a bit of planning, given the iron-bound geology of the place, and its spiniform botany. Though it would otherwise be an excellent alternative venue for Schoolies Week.
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Is this comedian Vic, or another non related member of the Demised family? So that was the ghost of your virginity? I thought it was marsh gas.
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I do believe that Iron Knob was once linked by a land bridge to the intercourse archipeligo, but the forces of nature saw it pull away and lose its prominence somewhat.
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Hopefully this is on topic. A couple of my favourite links:
http://philbrodieband.com/jokes-jokes_town_names.htm
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com
And sorry to take a serious tangent, but isn’t West Intercourse Island the location of some important Aboriginal rock art?
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Intercourse Island, sounds like a great place for a church picnic.
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Just took the liberty of E-mailing “PhilBrodieBand” with Upper Swan, which amazingly wasn’t on the list.
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Reminds me of a turning point for aircraft positioned just North of Pakenham (E of Melbourne) = Packenham Upper.
Imagine the chortling when pilots were requested to “…report Packenham Upper.”
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Rolly, I too remember Packenham Upper – we used to visit friends out that way until we realised what a backwards, out of the way place it is… funny name, shit place.
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We have a town named Intercourse in the States. I think it’s in Pennsylvania. Along with Blue Balls.
Srsly.
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is that anywhere near Whiskey Dick Mountain ella?
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don’t forget Great Cockup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cockup
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They should have one of those Rally bash things from Intercourse Island to Cock Wash.
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There is a Bogan Shire in NSW.
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http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=238562
Redundant, kind of.
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And let’s not forget Cockburn, right here in Perth.
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Co – burn Bento. Pronounced Co- burn.
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[Co – burn Bento. Pronounced Co- burn.]
Try telling that to visiting soap starlets and other Eastern States Celebrities during Telethon LA :-)
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Yeah well we all know it’s burnt cocks really.
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#18 ….therefore when nature called, Iron bar withdrew from intercourse, yes, excellent!
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You can say it how you want LA, but I’ll go for the cheap laughs every time.
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Mez – Its a couple thousand miles away. WDM is in Washington State where I’ve never been and never want to be. Sure, they have strong coffee. They also have rain and earthworms most days of the year.
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This one is getting heaps of hits today. Lots of intercouse island search hits. Research maybe?
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The origin of the name was a topic of conversation on this mornings ABC radio program ‘Australia all over’ with Ian McNamara.
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Now that program is a solid gold worst. Such a patronising bastard. Coming from the country, I hate that show which seems to go for 8 hours with a vengeance.
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You were born a Sundays With Macca man, and you’ll die etc
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Maccas on a Sunday morning is a far far worse show than anything Howard Riddance Sattler could dish up. Horrible. Country people should run him out of town with a pitchfork up his arse.
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Trivia,
Macca was a member of Col Joye’s 70’s version of the Joye Boys and played Guitar on Heaven Is My woman’s Love – sorry no youtube clip :-( But I found this bit of Macca :-)
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Yet the Country Folk LOVE his show and tune in their thousands and attend his Outside Broadcasts.
Take him off and there would riots in the streets.
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As I say, I’m from the country. And sadly most country people are idiots.
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What do you expect when they vote National and demand rorts for regions :-)
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As a country person, I’ve got three words for you. Wilson Tuckey.
We vote Tuckey and listen to macca. We are indeed fucking idiots.
And we go to B&S balls.
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errrk.
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Man-oh-man. I’ve had too much Amsterdam: I look at the map of the Intercourses at the top of this post and I can’t tell land from sea! I’m freakin’ out!
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No Such Place!
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Is too.
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I just Googled that, Sorry you where right i just relised it then im glad to say this website has helped me with some stuff i never knew about this world!
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What’s the Indigenous name?
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When the port of Dampier was being developed in the sixties, the map makers asked the locals the names of the islands just offshore. Because you can’t really put “those fuckin’ islands” on a chart, we now have the Intercourse Island Group
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Went for a visit hoping to find some willing Asian chicks, but it is all locked up. Disappointing.
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Srerenivasans
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