Punchbowl

See also: punch bowl, punchbowl, and Punch Bowl

English

Etymology

From punch bowl. From being a bowl-shaped valley.

• (New South Wales): The suburb of Punchbowl is named after the valley of Punch Bowl in neighbouring Belfield.
• (Korea): Coined by United Nations forces during the Korean War, when they fought a battle there.

Proper noun

Punchbowl

1. A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
2. A valley in Belfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

   Synonyms: Punch Bowl, Punch Bowl Valley, Punchbowl Valley

3. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney.
4. A neighbourhood of Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
5. Ellipsis of Punchbowl Crater: a volcano in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
6. A valley in Yanggu, Gangwon Province, South Korea.

   Synonym: Haean Basin

   • 1951 October 22, “War in Asia”, in Time, volume LVIII, number 17, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

     Last week, on the front north of the Punchbowl, a whole battalion of marines—nearly 1,000 men—was moved to a mountainous front-line sector by helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date.

   • 1985 October 27, Clyde H. Farnsworth, “KOREA WAR VETERANS RETURN FOR ANOTHER LOOK”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 1, page 16‎^[2]:

     Hill 930 here, about 100 miles northeast of Seoul, just above the village of Wontong, towers over a region still called the Punchbowl because that is what it looked like to G.I.'s during the Korean War. […]
     "The Korean War is to all accounts and purposes ignored," said Rudy Basurto of Lompoc, Calif., who was a medic with the 45th Division 33 years ago in the Punchbowl.

   • 2017 July 16, Lee Williams, “Korean War veteran’s Navy Cross is 66 years overdue”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 12 February 2024‎^[4]:

     Naimo ran to their aid, exposing himself to withering enemy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire sweeping his company’s position: Hill 1052, near what would be called “The Punchbowl,” north of the 38th Parallel.

   • 2018 September 11, Johan Augustin, “North Korea’s ravaged forests and the South Koreans ready to replant them”, in South China Morning Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 September 2018, Korean Peninsula‎^[6]:

     Our drive north brings us to Haean-myeon valley, a highland basin in the far northeast of South Korea, and which was nicknamed “the punchbowl” by American-led United Nations forces during the Korean war. Jung, KFS biologist Bak Gippeum and I stroll through the 375-acre National DMZ Botanical Garden, which opened four years ago.

Descendants

• → Korean: 펀치볼 (Peonchibol)

Translations

Haenan Basin

• Korean: 펀치볼 (Peonchibol), 해안분지 (Haeanbunji)

Punchbowl Crater

• Hawaiian: Puowaina

Further reading

• Punchbowl, New South Wales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia