1. Rural locality in Australia:
Paraparap is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia.
The Paraparap Parish was made available for sale in the 1850s, but was much less successful than other sales in the region, with slightly more than half of the lots being sold in the initial sales.
The locality remains largely rural, and now contains the Drol Kar Buddhist Centre, the headquarters of the Geelong Veteran Cycling Club, the Giddings Road Nature Reserve, and a winery.
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2. Suburb of the city of Darwin in Australia
Parap is an inner suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Parap derived its name from that applied by Dr John A Gilruth, first Commonwealth Administrator in 1912.
He applied the name Paraparap (believed to have been a pastoral property of Dewing near Moriac, Geelong), but had to abbreviate it to Parap later during his term.
Parap was also the staging point to the event known as the Darwin Rebellion, on 17 December 1918, in protest against Gilruth's administration.
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