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Every geyser is named after Geysir, 'the gusher', one hot spring in Iceland's Haukadalur valley that could hurl boiling water 60 metres high. Geysir is mostly quiet now, but its neighbour Strokkur still erupts every few minutes.
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📍 Sydney region, Australia
Wombat comes from Dharug, the Aboriginal language of the Sydney area, and was first written down in 1798. Wombats leave cube-shaped droppings, and their pouches face backwards so they don't fill with soil while they dig.
📍 Peru
Guano comes from wanu, the Quechua word for dung used as fertiliser. The Inca strictly protected the seabirds nesting on islands off Peru, and in the 1800s ships carried their droppings around the world to fertilise farms.
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📍 Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
Joseph Banks wrote down 'kanguru' in 1770 at today's Cooktown, where Cook's ship was being repaired, from the Guugu Yimithirr word gangurru. The tale that it means 'I don't know' is a myth.
📍 Western Russia
In gorodki, "little towns" in Russian, players hurl a heavy bat to knock wooden pins out of a square called the "town". This old Russian game was a favourite of Peter the Great and Leo Tolstoy, yet it only got written rules in 1923.
📍 London (the Savoy), England
French chef Auguste Escoffier created Peach Melba at London's Savoy Hotel in 1892 or 1893 to honour Australian soprano Nellie Melba, then starring at Covent Garden.
📍 Valencia (Albufera lagoon), Spain
Paella is named after its pan: in Valencian, paella simply means 'frying pan'. The dish grew up among rice farmers around the Albufera lagoon near Valencia, and the classic version uses rabbit, chicken and beans rather than seafood.