Why is Virgin Gorda, the isle in the Caribbean, named so? It means “Fat Virgin.” Did Columbus (or whoever) see a fat little native girl and name the place after her (on the assumption that said little girl was, in fact, a virgin)?
And what about that city in Florida, Boca Ratón? Why is it named so? It means “Mouse Mouth.” I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with Disney…
As for Boca, the legend I always heard was that spanish settlers saw the mouth of some river there, where there were lots of rats, thus, Rat Mouth.
WAG: The group of islands are called the Virgin Islands, probable meaning they were not inhabited. Virgen Gorda probably means the large Virgin (island) and my guess is chances are there is another one called the smaller or lesser Virgin (Island) nearby.
“Fat Virgin and the Mouths of Mice” would make and excellent name for a band.
and my roomie worked for the City. Boca Raton translates to “mouth of the rat”. When looking at a map of Boca, the inlet from the ocean looks like a rat’s mouth.
And, FYI, it’s pronounced Boca Ra-TONE, not Ra-tawn. In case you care.
What I’m really wondering about is the town of Climax, Michigan. How did THAT get it’s name? 
Because Epiphany was already taken? 
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For anyone in Newfoundland or knowledge thereof:
RE: city/town/village of Joe Batt’s Arm
Who is Joe Batt and what’s so important about his arm?
(and Dildo Run Provincial Park? I saw it on a map! Really! Why the name?!?!)
BTW, the above questions are mutually exclusive of each other!
Which is just NE of Paradise (on the same map.)
And, IIRC from my years living in eastern PA, just SW of Bird-in-hand, PA. So, if you start with your Bird-in-hand, you can get to Paradise through Intercourse.
Back off – I was a horny teenage boy when I first saw it on the map. 
Sua
and don’t forget Blue Ball, PA for those that can’t get to Intercourse and Paradise.
God I love being a Pennsylvanian
Ok, answer me this one; what the the heck is a Medicine Hat? (as in the city in Alberta, Canada) Does it have anything to do with it’s nickname, “The Gas City”?
You’re really begging for a triple, aren’t you?
From britannica.com:
Some people never learn. Sheesh!!
Many explorers named their discoveries after the day of the year they made the discovery. For example, wasn’t Christmas Island discovered on Christmas; and Asuncion, Paraguay discovered on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (15 August)? Perhaps the Virgin Islands were discovered on the Feast of the Virgin of Los Angeles (the angles, not the city), 2 August. I don’t think the Spanish used “virgin” to mean “uninhabited.”
I want to know how St. Louis du Ha! Ha! in Quebec got its name.
but from http://www.mrctemiscouata.gc.ca/louis.html :
There you have it.
The URL won’t open, even though I double checked it. You’ll just have to trust me I guess. As an aside, for those few of you not too familiar with French, the quote basically says that the first settlers uttered an admiring “ah! ah!” when they first saw, from the top of a hill, the majestic beauty of the Temiscouata river and that the “ah! ah!” eventually became “ha! ha!” (possibly due to a clerical error). It goes on to say that (as a possible alternative explanation?) “ha! ha!” was used in the old days by members of the Hescuewaska tribe to describe something unexpected.
Residents of St-Louis-du-ha!-ha! are called Louisiens and Louisiennes.
Since we’re discussing sexually suggestive town names, here’s a few I’ve collected over the years. In addition to Intercourse, PA there are:
Condom, France
Dildo, Newfoundland
French Lick, IN
Knob Lick, MO KY
Laid, Scotland
Muff, Ireland
Round Bottom, OH
Tongue, Scotland
Twatt, Orkney Is., Scotland
In addition, I’ve heard that there’s a place called Cocks in Cornwall, but it’s not on my road atlas of Great Britain nor in the GEONet database.