Desolation Islands aka the Kerguelen Archipelago Kerguelen Islands - Wikipedia
come close for me.
Also my ideal setting for a Bond super villain lair, very weird place.
Peter
Those are why Cock Rock stands up so straight…
A place I just came across: The Dead Mountains. The perfect name for the lair of a necromantic horde if it was fictional.
Yes, but there are other places called Matanza which refer to the location downwind of the village where collective butcherings would take place, rather than at the local era (the location where cereal was separated from chaff and so forth, and which often ended up becoming the village square). I guess that one you linked helps explain why it’s usually SSL foreigners who find the name horrible and even offensive: they’re familiar with the word as massacre but not as butchering.
“Slaughterhouse” (or I guess more exactly “slaughtering place”) is not exactly regarded as the most upscale place name either.
Matanzas fits the OP regardless of whether it’s people or animals being slaughtered.
The ruins of Panama Viejo have a Puente de Matadero (Slaughterhouse Bridge). I see there is one in Madrid as well.
If you know French, here’s a place-name lookupfor Quebec. There’s a surprising number of places with death (“mort”) in the name, including (translated) Dead Horse Bay. To be less morbid, there’s even more names with love (“amour”) in them, including multiple Love Lakes.
Poison Creek runs through Park City, UT.
delllllll!
It’s even right in the link!
I also know boroughs called Matadero, Azucarera (sugar factory), Traslapuente (past the bridge), Left Side (most of the city being on the river’s right side as the water flows), Las Fuentes (fountains, springs), Tejerías (gable factories) or Arrabal (socioeconomic meaning similar to what in the US is a barrio) and tons of streets named after the trades that were based there: Carnicerías (butcher shops), Herrerrías (smithies), Alfareros (potters)…
Bonus bonus points if you’ve had intercourse with your Pa in Intercourse, PA.
How is that pronounced? deyyy?
Sorry for the typo.
I used to take a regular trip though Arizona on which the highway signs announced exits for such places as Dead Man Wash, Horsethief Basin, Big Bug Creek, Bloody Basin, and Dead Horse Ranch (a state park).
Mount Asphyxia in the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica; it’s named that because volcanic fumes mixed with the smell of penguin poop really can overwhelm visitors! :eek:
My wallmap of Southern Africa claims that the Afrikaans name for the Skeleton Coast (or part of it) is Seekus van die Dood, i.e. “Coast of the Dead”, which is even more fantasy-like.
Other good Afrikaans placenames from Southern Africa: Swartland (“Black Land”), Drakensberg (“Dragon Mountains”), Groot-Swartberg (“Great Black Mountains”). I particularly like Seweweekspoort (“Seven Weeks Gorge”).
South Africa also has a “Blood River”. And there’s “Devil’s Peak” in Cape Town. In fact, the name “Cape of Good Hope” is itself pretty fantasy-like.
Jersey Shore…A town in north-central Pennsylvania.
No sand, boardwalk, or Snooki.
While it doesn’t have negative connotations, I always thought the town of Moose Factory, Ontario, sounded rather fantastical.
In Waukesha County Wisconsin, the Sherwood Forest subdivision.
Which, oddly, wasn’t named for Robin Hood’s old digs.
The developer was Mr Sherwood.
And its capital city, Smoke Cove.
There’s a street in Las Cruces, New Mexico named Jornada Road. It follows the route of a much older Spanish road named Jornada Del Muerto - Journey of the Dead.
Popocatépetl in Mexico means “smoking mountain” in Nahautl.
The Mosquito Coast (and the Golfo de los Mosquitos in Panama), although the name actually comes from an Indian tribe instead of biting insects.
Boca del Drago (“Dragon’s Mouth”), a channel in Panama, in Bocas del Toro (“Bull’s Mouth”) province.
There’s also Boca Raton, “Rat’s Mouth”.
My brother-in-law lives on Tumblebrook Lane in the town of Rocky Hill. I suspect his neighbors are hobbits.