Wullungga? There's a place called Wollongong in Australia, and it's an Aboroginal name - long before the coming of the British.
One possibility is that there is not enough iron in SEAsia to export. Even when making keris in the old days, people have to use the iron 'pebbles' along the beaches. I guess the scarcity of iron makes the keris more precious, and partly explains the reverence for it.
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