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Oh, it is a ridiculously small number. Apart from a few towns like Wagga Wagga, Sanger rock formations like Uluru, and a river or two, there is virtually no cartotographic reference to the Aborigines at all. In the Italian colonies in Africa (from what little I've seen) they seemed to keep at least some native names for stuff, but the Africans in Somalia and Libya had a much, much more organised society than the Aborigines, with named towns and stuff.

I think it needs to be remembered in this case that by the 1840s, and indeed by 1804, all of Australia's coastline was mapped and named. So a settlement in South West Australia might take on the name of whatever pre-named area is was in eg Cape Leeuwin, Geographie Bay, Cape Naturaliste or the Swan River.