Mount Blackwood, New South Wales
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]
| Mount Blackwood New South Wales | |||||||||
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 Country around Mount Blackwood | |||||||||
  Mount Blackwood | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 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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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
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
- "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.