Parish of Booraboonara

Booraboonara located at 31°25′02″S 141°44′53″E is a remote civil parish of Mootwingee County in far North West New South Wales.[1]

Mootwingee County.

Geography

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).[2] The nearest town is Tibooburra to the north and Whitecliffs to the east.

History

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Bandjigali language[3][4] Aboriginal peoples.[5]

Charles Sturt passed through the area during 1845,[6] In 1861 the Burke and Will's expedition passed to the east.[7]

References
  1. "Mootwingee County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
  2. 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)
  3. Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Corner Country History & Heritage].
  4. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  5. David R Horton (creator), © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  6. Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.


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