What a Krakouer!

Listening to the Marngrook footy show on the radio [by proxy - I was told about it later],

there was an interview with Jimmy Krakouer (or perhaps it was Phil)


He was asked about the origins of his name,  Krakouer   - an unusual name apparently.

And he said it was because, way back when, one of his progenitors (a great great great (or more) grandfather, was from here:

Kraków 

maybe one of those heroic Poles that roamed Australia a few centuries ago ... naming mountains as they went

 

except neither Kosciuszko or Strzelecki were from Kraków ...




also there's not that much family resemblence!
 

Recent biography of the Krakouer brothers,
'Brotherboys: The Story of Jim and Phil Krakouer' by Sean Gorman
 (review in The Monthly by Paul Daffey)