Wertago, New South Wales

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Wertago, New South Wales is a remote rural locality , station and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales. [1] [2]

Location

Sydney, Australia is about 880 km to the east-southeast and the village of White Cliffs which is 56 km away. [3] Wertago is about 216m above sea level. The nearest ocean being the Southern Ocean about 470 km west-southwest of Wertago.

Wertago has extremely hot summers and mild winters. The annual average rainfall is 249.7 millimetres (9.8 in) which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert),. [4] is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer. [5]

Big Wertago Mine is a copper, lead and silver mine on the Cootawundy Creek about 870 km west-northwest of Sydney. The Big Wertago Mine is at an altitude of about 272m above sea level and is one of the westernmost mines in New South Wales. [6]

The Mutawintji National Park lies some kilometers to the west.

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References

  1. "Yungnulgra". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales . Retrieved 30 July 2013. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
  3. Map of Wertago.
  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. NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC..
  6. Map of Big Wertago Mine, NSW.