Parish of Bolwarry

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Bolwarry, New South Wales is a civil parish of Tongowoko County, New South wales. [1] The parish is east of Tibooburra. [2]

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Located at 29°23'50.0"S 142°20'04.0"E, the parish is east of Tibooburra, and within the traditional lands of Yarli peoples. The landscape is flat and arid scrubland.

Geography

A Grey grasswren in Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park (north-western New South Wales). GreyGrasswrenAmytornisbarbatus.jpg
A Grey grasswren in Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park (north-western New South Wales).

The topography of the parish is flat and arid, with a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot semi arid). [3] The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly cattle, and sheep. There are no towns in the parish and the nearest settlement is Tibooburra, New South Wales.


Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park is within the parish.

History

The parish is on the traditional land of the Karrengappa people. The first Europeans through the area were Burke and Wills with Charles Sturt passing to the west.

the expansion of pastoralist in the second half of the 19th century saw the parish incorporated into the Caryapundy Station. In 1873 [4] the area was described as being of [the] Burke and Wills track and well watered by the Bulloo River, Tongowoko, Torrens and other creeks. At the time the area was made up of grassed downs and saltbush country. [5]

By 1892 the Caryapundy Station was in the hands of Sidney Kidman who moved 10,000 sheep and 1,000 head of cattle [6] from the station, still owned by the Kidman Brothers in 1899, Sidney Kidman described it as one of the worst in New South Wales, the 54,200 acres (21,934 ha) might carry 230 cattle but no more, much of it is a claypan that will never carry feed. [7]

In the 1890s it was included in the Albert Goldfields.[ citation needed ]

The path of totality for the 25 November 2030 solar eclipse will pass over the parish.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Tongowoko". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales . Retrieved 4 August 2013. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. Map of the County of Evelyn : Western Division, Land District of Willyama.
  3. 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)
  4. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 11 October 1873. p. 10. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  5. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 23 August 1877. p. 7. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  6. "Pastoral Intelligence". The Argus . Melbourne, Victoria.: National Library of Australia. 12 September 1892. p. 6. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  7. "Rough Country in the back blocks". South Australian Register . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 28 September 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 16 June 2013.