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Mount Blackwood, New South Wales

Coordinates: 29°43′55″S 141°52′05″E / 29.732°S 141.868°E / -29.732; 141.868
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Mount Blackwood
New South Wales
Country around Mount Blackwood
Mount Blackwood is located in New South Wales
Mount Blackwood
Mount Blackwood
Coordinates29°43′55″S 141°52′05″E / 29.732°S 141.868°E / -29.732; 141.868
Population0 (2016 census)
Location
LGA(s)Unincorporated Far West Region
CountyEvelyn[1]
State electorate(s)Barwon
Federal division(s)Farrer
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
 ? 6 °C
43 °F
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Mount Blackwood, New South Wales located at 29°48′37″S 141°31′10″E, is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Evelyn County in far northwest New South Wales.[2] located at 30°04′42″S 142°45′50″E, east of the Silver City Highway . The geography of the parish is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[3]

The nearest town is Tibooburra to the northwest, which is on the Silver City Highway and it lies south of the Sturt National Park.

History

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The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali[4] and to a lesser extent Karenggapa,[5] Aboriginal peoples.[6]

Charles Sturt passed through the area, camping for six months at nearby Preservation Creek, in 1845,[7]

In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed to the east.[8]

Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s.

References

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  1. ^ "Evelyn County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Yantara". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 August 2013. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
  4. ^ Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Corner Country History & Heritage.
  5. ^ Norman Barnett Tindale, (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  6. ^ David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  7. ^ Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ^ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.