Dunlop Parish (Yanda County)

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Dunlop Parish
New South Wales
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Dunlop Parish
Coordinates 30°32′0″S145°07′0″E / 30.53333°S 145.11667°E / -30.53333; 145.11667
Postcode(s) 2840
Elevation100 m (328 ft)
LGA(s) Bourke Shire
State electorate(s) Barwon
Federal division(s) Parkes

Dunlop Parish is a civil parish, [1] of Yanda County, a cadasteral division of New South Wales; [2] a Cadastral division of New South Wales. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Location

The Parish is on the Darling River upstream of Wilcannia, New South Wales [7] [8] and down stream of Bourke, New South Wales.

The only town of the parish is Louth, New South Wales.

Geography

The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid). [9]

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

The Dunlop Ranges are in the parish.

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Barkindji people, [10] [11] The first European to the area was Thomas Mitchell (explorer).

In 1859 when Thomas Andrew Mathews, an Irish immigrant from County Louth, built a pub to serve the passing trade along the Darling River.

In 1888 the first mechanised shearing of sheep, in the world, took place at Sir Samuel McCaughey's Dunlop Station. [12]

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References

  1. Map of the County of Yanda, Western Division, NSW 1918.
  2. [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).
  3. "Rankin". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales . Retrieved 4 August 2013. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 24.
  5. Yanda County Archived 6 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine , GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES REGISTER EXTRACT.
  6. / The New atlas of Australia, (John Sands, 1886), map 24.
  7. [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).
  8. The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 24.
  9. 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)
  10. Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
  11. Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS.
  12. Trilby Station Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 26 September 2011