According to local reports from the early 1900's, the name of a local Aborigine was 'Tin-Tin' and the suffix ara was added to it. (There is an Aboriginal word tinyara meaning 'boy', 'lad', 'youth'.) However, a more convincing explanation is that it is derived from tinlinyara, the Aboriginal name for stars in 'Orion's Belt', described in Aboriginal mythology as a number of young men hunting emus, kangaroos and other game on the great celestial plain in the sky.

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