Parish of Mount King

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Country around Mt King.

Mount King, New South Wales is a civil parish of Poole County in far North West New South Wales, [1] [2] located at 29°01′26″N141°24′53″E / 29.0240°N 141.4146°E / 29.0240; 141.4146 .

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Geography

The Geography, of Mt King is mostly the flat, arid landscape of the Channel Country but includes a series of mesa known as the "Jump ups" for which it is named.

Mt King is to the west of the Silver City Highway and lies entirely within the Sturt National Park. [3]

The Queensland-New South Wales border forms the northern boundary of the parish, which is marked by The Dingo Fence. [4]

The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert). [5] The County is barely inhabited with a population density of less than 1 person per 150 km² and the landscape is a flat arid scrubland.

History

The parish is the traditional lands of the Wadigali and Karengali people.

Charles Sturt explored the area in 1845.

The Mount King Station was established in the latter half of the 19th century, and is today one of seven former cattle stations in the Sturt National Park. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Poole County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ / Map of the County of Poole : Western Division, .
  3. ↑ Olive Downs campground.
  4. ↑ Sturt National Park, Outback NSW.
  5. ↑ 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)
  6. ↑ NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park, (2017) p 22.


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