Parish of Albert

Albert Parish, New South Wales is a remote civil parish of Yantara County near Milparinka, New South Wales.

Map of Yantara County, New South Wales,[1]

The parish is on the Silver City Highway where the road meets Salt Lake, New South Wales. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[2]

Gold was discovered there,[3] and for a while a village at Albert had a population of 900. but the gold soon ran out and life in the parish is very hard as it is arid and has no reliable fresh water.[4]

See also

References
  1. John Sands, The New atlas of Australia Sydney : J. Sands, [1886]
  2. 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)
  3. THE ALBERT GOLD-FIELDS. The Sydney Morning Herald. Mon 18 Aug. p. 8.
  4. "Milparinka - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 10 April 2018.


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