Parish of Tankarook

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

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The Parish is on the Darling River upstream of Wilcannia, New South Wales and is located at 31°02′14″S 144°25′37″E.

Geography

The topography of Tankarrok Parish is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid). [4]

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

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Barkindji people. [5] [6]

In 1835, explorer Major Thomas Mitchell was the first European to the region, in which he traced the Darling River to what is now Menindee. [7] In June 1866, the township of Wilcannia was proclaimed. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ [cartographer] C.A. Orwin, 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. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ The New atlas of Australia (John Sands, 1886) map 22.
  4. ↑ 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)
  5. ↑ Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes
  6. ↑ Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS.
  7. 1 2 "Wilcannia – Culture and History". Fairfax Media. November 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2013.


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