12 strangest place names in the world and the stories behind them

Geographic names can be serious in nature regarding boundaries and culture, but can also be a source of comedic relief. From Antarctica to Turkey, places often use names that provide adventure seekers with photographic opportunities and historians with opportunities to explain. Names may provide humour in English, but each possesses its own history, language or accidental derivation- the history of the people who settled there. Names may arise from an attempted marketing scheme of the 19th century, or be a result of mistranslation from ancient dialects or be the result of an ‘accidental’ co...