WHERE is Boninjup?
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That was the question on people’s lips last week after a weather forecast app on a mobile phone detected a Wimmera woman at the locality when she was, in fact, in Horsham.
“Does anyone know what this ‘Boninjup’ thing is about? And why does Elders weather think it is a location in Horsham? Even Google Maps has never heard of it,” she wrote to her social media followers.
Amusement followed as the woman’s social media followers discovered a gardening franchise, a vacant block of land and a dating service at the co-ordinates shown via the app.
“Clearly Boninjup is where all the decent 40-year-old men are then,” the woman joked.
A quick Google search by Man in the Corner also detected Boninjup as a location for other weather services including the Bureau of Meteorology and Weatherzone.
Do you have answers on where the name Boninjup comes from?
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