Can anyone tell me please how Burrill Lake NSW got it's name ?

Answer 1

Burrill, a lake that is permanently open to the sea, is the next community south from the township of Ulladulla, situated on the primary coastal route to Melbourne, the Princes Highway. It is about a two and a half hour drive north-east from Canberra and a nine hour journey north on the Highway from Melbourne. The Princes Highway crosses the eastern arm of the lake, but the main expanse reaches inland around ten kilometres and cannot be seen from the main road.
Burrill has approximately fifty two kilometres of shoreline and apart from very gradual changes since European settlement, the lakeside remains virtually the same.
There is no definitive meaning for the aboriginal name Burrill. In 1828 the Government Surveyor, Thomas Florance charted this part of the coast. It was he who first recorded the name Burrill, unfortunately the meaning of which he didn't convey. Since then, two explanations have been put forward. The first one is that the name was derived from the local native word, "burrul" meaning wallaby and the second that it means a tree with a green and white leaf. As there are no longer any living speakers of the local dialect, I doubt we'll ever learn the real meaning.