Things with double names (eg Wagga Wagga).
Location: Sydney, NSW
Dodo the extinct flightless bird on island of ?___________? is normally written as one word IIRC.
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 8:24 pm
Location: Taking over Mission Impossible!!
143.000 km from Sydney 21-Apr-1878 Opened as Austermere 1-Oct-1889 Renamed Bong Bong 27-Jan-1913 Closed
This does not complete!
Is Austermere same as Austinmere on Illawarra Line?
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 10:18 pm
Location: Sydney, NSW
That is to say, Yo Yo the Toy.
Another category might be the sound that birds and animals make.
Generally the two individual words are pronounced the same.
An exception is Goonoo Goonoo which is pronouced IIRC something like GooNoo G'Noo.
Posted: Aug 17, 2007 11:43 pm
Location: In bed doing what I do best!!!!!!!!!!!
Bam Bam (Barney's son in the Flintstones).
Posted: Aug 18, 2007 7:40 am
Location: In bed doing what I do best!!!!!!!!!!!
What about the NT Tourism slogan from Daryl Somers a few years ago?
"You'll NEVER NEVER know if you NEVER NEVER go."
Posted: Aug 18, 2007 8:21 am
Location: Somewhere out on the track......anywhere around the country
Bet Bet, Walwal, Pura Pura, Nerrin Nerrin.
Posted: Aug 18, 2007 5:15 pm
Location: Sydney, NSW
Monarchs sometimes described themselves as "King of Kings".
Particularly notable people in a field might be called say a "General's General".
Less notable might be people called say Peter Peterson.
Posted: Aug 18, 2007 5:34 pm
Location: In bed doing what I do best!!!!!!!!!!!
Can Can (dance)
pom pom
blah blah blah blah blah (I know, I'm pushing it a bit here!!!! 
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Posted: Aug 18, 2007 5:53 pm
Location: Princes Park, Carlton
Posted: Aug 19, 2007 3:07 pm
Location: Sydney, NSW
Pango Pango in Samoa, until the US Navy typed a report on a typewriter with a defective letter "N" upon which it go renamed Pago Pago, Samoa.
PS. This thread is really going well with lots of good contributions.
Posted: Aug 19, 2007 6:49 pm
Ki Ki (SA)Kiel Kiel (NSW)Grong Grong (NSW)Gil Gil (NSW)Jung Jung (Vic)Bet Bet (Vic)Cope Cope (Vic)
Posted: Aug 19, 2007 10:37 pm
Location: Near H30+059
I like the names that are nearly doubles:Wee WaaBaan BaaSuggan Buggan
Other doubles I didn't see mentioned include:Gumly Gumly (near Wagga Wagga)Greg Greg (somewhere)Walla Walla (sth NSW)
And for sillinessChitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 12:10 pm
Location: The road jump at Charlotte Pass. Paxman Valenta on two planks.
Nerrin Nerrin, Pura Pura, and Vite Vite (in Victoria) have been mentioned ... but note that those three locations lie in sequence on the rail map as well 
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 12:41 pm
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 12:48 pm
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 1:07 pm
Location: The road jump at Charlotte Pass. Paxman Valenta on two planks.
Keeping with the 'double' theme - but veering away from the rails - there is a noted medical doctor living in Adelaide whose christian and surname are the same.
His name is ... David David.
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 1:21 pm
Location: Berowra
If you read the first post properly. It's not all about railway stations!
What about other people, places and things?
matt
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 4:04 pm
Location: Sydney, NSW
His name is ... David David.
And what is his middle name or initial?
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 4:08 pm
Don't forget Major Major Major Major - a character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22. His name was Major Major Major, given the rank of Major.
Posted: Aug 20, 2007 4:12 pm
His name is ... David David.
Posted: Aug 22, 2007 12:18 am
I was going to call my daughter Echo....What?
Posted: Aug 22, 2007 12:21 am
Location: Suckin' cans of Barbed Wire awaiting the IT Police
Mindy Mindy, an FMG mining lease.
Posted: Aug 22, 2007 12:33 am
Location: Shepparton
Don't forget the famous Min Min Light
Posted: Aug 22, 2007 10:14 am
Location: Sydney, NSW
CTTOI (Come To THink Of It), one of the "Carry On" films had a Constable John Constable.
Posted: Aug 22, 2007 11:51 am