The name Burra Burra has been asserted to have come from numerous sources. As early as July 1843, when the locality was already a sheep outstation
for pastoralist William Peter of Manoora, it was known as Burrow Creek. Despite that obvious (though misspelled) connection to the indigenous
Ngadjuri people, a later theory persistently postulates that it comes from the Hindustani for ‘great great’, used by Indian shepherds working
for another early pastoralist, James Stein, to refer to creek. The name could also have come from Stein's home country of Scotland or a number
of Aboriginal languages. A so-called 'English Burra Burra' was discovered in 1851 in Devon in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape;
possibly coincidentally several ancient place names such as Burrator in Devon and Burraton in Cornwall occur nearby; also possible origins for the name.
A Burra Burra mine is located in Tennessee and named after the Australian one. [Wikipedia]