Bombora (disambiguation)

Bombora is an indigenous Australian term for large waves breaking over submerged rock shelves.

The term has been adopted as a name in various ways:

Surfing
  • "Bombora", the best known hit and then the first LP of the 1960s Australian surf rock band The Atlantics, both released in 1963
  • "Bombora", the name of a single by American surf rock band The Original Surfaris
  • Bombora!, CD album by The Original Surfaris, released in 1995
  • The Bomboras, an all-instrumental surf band of the 1990s named after the track by The Original Surfaris
  • Bombora, The Story of Australian Surfing is a two-part television documentary made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast in 2009
  • Bombora, iPhone application that includes ocean forecasting features

Other
  • Bombora, a family-type steel roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah; designed in-house by Lagoon.
  • Bombora (vodka), imported by G'Day Imports of St. Louis, Missouri, one of the few Australian distilled vodkas imported to the United States
  • Bombora, formerly a military airfield located near Gudauta in the partially recognised state of Abkhazia, of the Russian Federation
  • Bombora, a low-end coconut rum available in Australia
  • Bombora, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso


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