Mount Blackwood, New South Wales
| Mount Blackwood New South Wales | |||||||||
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 Country around Mount Blackwood | |||||||||
  Mount Blackwood | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°43′55″S 141°52′05″E / 29.732°S 141.868°E | ||||||||
| Population | 0 (2016 census) | ||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Unincorporated Far West Region | ||||||||
| County | Evelyn[1] | ||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Barwon | ||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Farrer | ||||||||
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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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "Evelyn County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
- ^ "Yantara". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ^ 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)
- ^ Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Corner Country History & Heritage.
- ^ Norman Barnett Tindale, (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
- ^ David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
- ^ Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
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