Parish of Donalroe

Donalroe Parish in Cobar Shire is a civil parish of Rankin County,;[1] a Cadastral division of New South Wales.[2][3]

Rankin county NSW.

The Parish is on the Darling River upstream of Wilcannia, New South Wales,;[4] a Cadastral division of New South Wales.[5][6] and is located at 31°11′32″S 144°10′24″E.

Geography

The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid).[7]

The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, based on Wheat, sheep and cattle.

The traditional owners of the area are the Barundji and Barkindji people,[8][9] with the Danggalia people on the opposite bank of the Darling River.

See also

References
  1. [cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914).
  2. "Rankin". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  3. The New atlas of Australia] (John Sands, 1886) map 22.
  4. [cartographer] C.A. Orwin, [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233873384/view Map of the County of Rankin : Western Division, Land Districts of Bourke, Cobar and Wilcannia, N.S.W. 1912 (New South Wales. Department of Lands Title, Sydney N.S.W. 1914).
  5. "Rankin". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  6. The New atlas of Australia] (John Sands, 1886) map 24.
  7. 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)
  8. Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
  9. Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS.


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