Parish of Nantomoko

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Landscape around Nantomoko

Nantomoko is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far northwest New South Wales. [1] [2] located at 29°12′51″S141°04′50″E / 29.2143°S 141.0805°E / -29.2143; 141.0805

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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). [3] 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.

The nearest town is Tibooburra to the east, which is on the Silver City Highway and the parish lies south of the Sturt National Park. [4] There is also a small settlement at Cameron's Corner just over the Queensland Border.

History

The parish is on the traditional lands of the Wadigali [5] and to some extent Karenggapa, [6] Aboriginal peoples. [7]

Charles Sturt passed through the parish during 1845, [8] and In 1861 the Burke and Will's expedition passed to the east, [9] through what is now the Pindera Aboriginal Area. [10]

Gold was discovered nearby in the 1870s, and the miners were followed by pastoral farming enterprises.

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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. ↑ 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. ↑ Olive Downs campground.
  5. ↑ Aboriginal Heritage Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine , Corner Country History & Heritage].
  6. ↑ Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Karenggapa (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  7. ↑ David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.
  8. ↑ Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine .
  9. ↑ The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine .
  10. ↑ NSW National Parks and Wildlife service, Draft Plan of Management Sturt National Park, (2017) p 22.


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