Editing Woolloomooloo (section)

===Aboriginal culture===
[[File:Woolloomooloo Bay Watercolour 1855.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|Woolloomooloo Bay in 1855 (watercolour)]]
The current spelling of "Woolloomooloo" is derived from the name of the first homestead in the area, ''Wolloomooloo House'', built by the first landowner John Palmer. There is debate as to how Palmer came up with the name with different [[Australian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] words being suggested. Anthropologist J.D. McCarthy wrote in 'NSW Aboriginal Places Names', in 1946, that Woolloomooloo could be derived from either ''Wallamullah'', meaning ''place of plenty'' or ''Wallabahmullah'', meaning a ''young black kangaroo''.<ref name="Requiem">{{cite book |last=Farwell |first=George |year=1971 |title=Requiem for Woolloomooloo |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |isbn=0-340-15777-1}}</ref>

In 1852, the traveller Col. G.C. Mundy wrote that the name came from ''Wala-mala'', meaning an "[Aboriginal] burial ground". It has also been suggested that the name means ''field of blood'', due to the alleged Aboriginal tribal fights that took place in the area, or that it is from the pronunciation by Aboriginals of ''windmill'', from the one that existed on Darlinghurst ridge until the 1850s.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}