Editing Mount Kosciuszko (section)

===Aboriginal names===
There are several native Aboriginal ([[Ngarigo language|Ngarigo]]) names associated with Mount Townsend, where J. Macarthur recorded in 1840 some campings of the natives. There is some confusion as to the exact sounds. These are ''Jagungal, Jar-gan-gil, Tar-gan-gil, Tackingal''; however, all of them mean [[Bogong Moth]], which [[aestivate]] on the mountain.<ref name=Andrews2/>

In 2019, "Kunama Namadgi" was submitted to the [[Geographical Names Board of New South Wales]] as a proposed [[Dual naming|dual name]] for Mount Kosciuszko. The proposal was submitted by the Toomaroombah Kunama Namadgi Indigenous Corporation, which states that the proposed name means "snow" and "mountain". According to Uncle John Casey, the mountain's [[Ngarigo]] name has "been Kunama Namadgi for 4,000 years, since we've been on country, until the white man came in the early 1800s and that's when they changed it". However, Iris White, the chairperson of the Southern Kosciuszko Executive Advisory Committee, disputed that account, stating "that name is not from our language. It's offensive because in some of our languages 'Kunama' actually means faeces". White said that a new name should not be given "just for the sake of it sounding Aboriginal or sounding good".<ref name="dual name ABC 2019" />