Parish of Connulpie

Connulpie, New South Wales is a remote civil Parish, of the County of Delalah[1] a cadasteral division of New South Wales.[2]

Delalah County

Geography

The topography of Connulpie, is the flat arid landscape of the Channel County with a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot semi arid).[3] There are no towns in the parish and the nearest settlement is Tibooburra, New South Wales and Hungerford, Queensland.

Economy

The economy in the parish has previously been based on broad acre agriculture, mainly cattle, and sheep.

A Grey grasswren in Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park (north-western New South Wales).

Narriearra Caryapundy Swamp National Park is within the north west corner of the parish.

History

The parish is on the traditional land of the Karrengappa people. The first Europeans through the area were Burke and Wills and in the 1890s was included in the Albert Goldfield.

In 1873[4] the area was described as "being of [the] Burke and Wills track and well watered by the Bulloo River, Tongowoko, Torrens and other creeks." At the time the area was made up of grassed downs and saltbush country.[5]

By 1892 the property was owned by Sidney Kidman who moved 10,000 sheep and 1,000 head of cattle[6] from the station, still owned by the Kidman Brothers in 1899. Kidman described it as "one of the worst in New South Wales, the 54,200 acres (21,934 ha) might carry 230 cattle but no more, much of it is a claypan that will never carry feed".[7]

See also

References
  1. Map of the County of Delalah, Western Division, N.S.W., 1914 (Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W, 1914).
  2. "Delalah". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  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. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 11 October 1873. p. 10. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  5. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 23 August 1877. p. 7. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  6. "Pastoral Intelligence". The Argus. Melbourne, Victoria.: National Library of Australia. 12 September 1892. p. 6. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  7. "Rough Country in the back blocks". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 28 September 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 16 June 2013.


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